Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.

I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him.

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right.

India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.