Do what I will never do.

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

We are all #humans and we all make #mistakes. We #hurt people even if we don't want to.

If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.

The knowledge of death seemed present in both sisters-it was something about the way they carried themselves, something that had broken too son and had not mended, marking them in spite of their lightheartedness.

Sexy means loving someone you donot know.

I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.