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To some extent, I draw on what I see around me; in other places, I imagine what I write.
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India lends itself well to fictionalization, but ultimately, it all depends on the writer's imagination.
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I hate it when people throw away food - I've seen too many hungry people.
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I'm too careful with money - comes out of being poor for several years while growing up.
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To make money for college, I worked in our college dining room.
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Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners.
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As I lived on in America, I got to truly know the people of this country - so many kind and wonderful people, people of so many races - who helped me in so many ways. Who became my friends. I realized that underneath our different accents, habits, foods, religions, ways of thinking, we shared a common humanity.
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I came into Chicago in winter - I'd never been so cold in my life! I was very homesick, and a poor student at that time. America seemed so different and so filled with amazing things - and almost all of them were out of my reach.
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I think writers from both East and West have long been fascinated by the ancient tales and the opportunity to reinterpret them.
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By the time we're adults, our ideas have solidified. So I wanted to write for a younger audience, who would perhaps love heroes from other cultures.
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To achieve important things, we have to sacrifice what's important to us. That's an idea that's very central to Indian thinking.
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I'm a very senses-oriented person, and I want to bring readers in on the level of the senses, so they can experience another culture and another place.
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After September 11, 2001, I was feeling like I really wanted more understanding between cultures. It seemed to me that so much of what happened on September 11 was because people didn't understand each other and were suspicious of each other.
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I find that it's really important for me to imagine characters and situations. That allows me a lot of freedom.
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My grandfather was a very strong personality. He certainly ruled his household with an iron fist, even though it was often gloved in velvet!
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I came from a traditional family, and it was an exciting but challenging transition to move to America and live on my own. The world around me was suddenly so different.
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I started writing after the death of my grandfather - memories, poems, etc. It was very personal; for years I did not share my writing with anyone.
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Each book is a separate entity for me. When I'm writing it, I enter its world and inhabit its vocabulary. I forget, as it were, that I ever wrote anything else.
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I think, we all learned that when we are afraid it's easy to want to blame, and the people we want to blame are the people who don't look like us.
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If it is good literature, the reader and the writer will connect. It's inevitable.
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I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son.
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It's very important to balance things; it's imperative to do something for the society, and women in particular, and help women who aren't in position to help themselves.
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With the strong women I write about, I want to create a sense of strong possibilities.
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I love visual art. I painted for many years when I was younger. I have studied modern/contemporary Indian art a bit and am very impressed with the talent in India.
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I was very fortunate that all my holidays I'd spend with my grandfather, experiencing a much more traditional way of life and listening to these wonderful stories, which I now feel are such an important part of Indian thinking.
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Often, writer's block will occur when I don't understand a character or his/her motivations. So I will make notes analysing characters.
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I want my books to force readers to recognise the fact that a woman is a human being just like them.
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I took a little break after 'The Palace of Illusions' to clear my head.
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It's different for different people, and for a woman it's important to look as good she wants to look. But you don't need to do it for someone else or to impress some male out there. You do it for your own sake. You wear what makes you feel good, you put make-up and jewellery - whatever gives you self-confidence.
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I feel I can express the nuances of the Bengali lifestyle and ways of thinking better than other cultures.
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Perhaps what distinguishes my characters is their courage and spirit and a certain stubbornness which enables them to keep going even when facing a setback. I think this developed organically as I wrote, but also it came out of a desire to portray women as powerful and intelligent forces in the world.
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Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture.
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