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

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

Ernest Hemingway has been the most important influence on me as a writer. But at a certain point as a writer, I realized that he was writing about go….

I tend to think that we are all pretty much alike. We all feel despair. We all have problems with relationships. We all become afraid. We all look at….

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..

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 produ….

As a teacher, I can help my students see what is working and not working. I can show them certain solutions. I can guide them to books that will serv….

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 d….

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and ….

Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question 'What should I do with my life?' In a voice of ….

The little babies are missing their families from their past lives. The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babi….

To me exposition always contains tenderness. While a dramatized scene is a way of proving and guaranteeing an emotional experience for the reader, ex….

For me, a lot of the humor comes not from innocence but from characters trying to figure out how to get what they need. I don't try to be funny, but ….

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

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

Money is part of how we move through the world, what stores and restaurants we go into, whether we take a train to the airport or a taxi. Describing ….

My parents are deeply pious Hindus..

People often need to describe things quickly and so they use a shorthand. The problem is that after they use a label, they begin to think only in ter….

The monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance. One's life completely changes based on the rain. Afte….

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….