If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

American literature has always been immigrant.

If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.

India is my kid sister.