Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at at a time.

She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.

I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.

The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

albert einstein quotes

We are all #humans and we all make #mistakes. We #hurt people even if we don't want to.

I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

Isolation offered its own form of companionship

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!

One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist.

War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war.

She has the gift of accepting her life.

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before