I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.

Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try

We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating

We have to make mistakes, its how we learn compassion for others

I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.

Obviously the bar is much higher now for a behavior to be scandalous. Social media has really changed the way people live. It's not a new impulse; it's just being enacted in a new way.

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors

You will ever depress the devil if you always love those who spit hatred into your face. The devil loves vengeance and anything contrary to this is an agenda to bring down his temporal kingdom!

You have access to everything that has ever happened or ever will happen if you can only open your consciousness to receive it.

So you realized that there were always women in tears, or a red-headed man, or something else to spoil your effects?""Yes, naturally.

When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his former screenwriter.

The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive.

It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.

Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician's life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience.

To practice magic is to bear the responsibility for having a vision.

Not one word of the following is true

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.