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

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

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 ….

My parents are deeply pious Hindus..

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

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 ….

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….

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….

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 ….

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….

If anybody reads an Indian newspaper, all these things are obvious, and so I am not breaking news. All I am doing is representing my community as it ….

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….

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….

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….

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

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

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 ….

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….

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 ….

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..

As a human being living one's life, one is more open to relief when there is rain or the expectation of rain. That readiness for hope gets manifested….