It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.

It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.

For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.

When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: Why did success pass me by?

Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?

Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive.

Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.

It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the narrative to be legible to the reader.

I can't have composite characters. I can't attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.

Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction.

My parents are deeply pious Hindus.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Today’s experience is necessary to equip you fully for the future.

Remember no matter how fast you run, you can't be the winner if you don't finish. As someone said, to be the first to finish, you must finish first! Go, take the strike!

Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surprised by a talking cat. The world was crumbling around him and anything could happen.

For now, I'll let you plead temporary amnesia, " he said and lifted my chin to him. "But I'm never going to forget what it felt like when you were biting my lip instead of your own.

I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.

I truly have a love-hate thing with the press.

My belief is stronger than your doubt.

If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.

Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man.