Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from ‘The Mistress of Spices.’ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
I’ve long been interested in the tale-within-a-tale phenomenon. I’m familiar with many tales which use this framework or the device of many people in one place, telling their stories, or multiple storytellers commenting on each others’ stories with their own. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
The Mahabharata,’ which inspired my novel ‘Palace of Illusions,’ also has many stories embedded within the main tale. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
The Moonstone’ was all I could have hoped for. A mysterious, cursed jewel, wrested from India, only to be stolen later from a great British mansion. Enigmatic, dangerous priests who follow it across the ocean in hopes of wresting it back. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
A book can be wonderful and powerful and accessible and artful all at the same time. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
There is no conflict in looking good. You buy things you need, and then you do something good for society. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
It’s never really easy to be successful as a writer when you’re trying to write literary fiction. You’ve already limited your readership limited by that choice. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
Each book is a separate entity for me. When I’m writing it, I enter its world and inhabit its vocabulary. I forget, as it were, that I ever wrote anything else. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
As I remember my grandfather and those Christmas mornings he gave for a little girl’s pleasure, I know that often a big life starts with doing small things. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant ‘big day.’ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
