It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

You learn more about life from watching 'Big Brother' than from reading a book.