Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again.

New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.

All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and depths.

I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write a cookbook' or, 'I should write for food magazines.' And then I get drawn back to writing fiction again.

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.

Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life.

I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere.

We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't.

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.

She'd have to propel herself into the future by whatever means possible or she'd be trapped forever in a place whose times had already passed.

Sadness was so claustrophobic.

No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana.

When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.

I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

A journey once begun, has no end

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.