One of the things that I am learning is that each generation will have its own negotiations with identity. And one generation can not necessarily help the other generation with it. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
I write best late at night, when everyone in the house has gone to bed. There’s something magical about that late night silence that appeals to me. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
To some extent, I draw on what I see around me; in other places, I imagine what I write. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
India lends itself well to fictionalization, but ultimately, it all depends on the writer’s imagination. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
I’m too careful with money – comes out of being poor for several years while growing up. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
After September 11, 2001, I was feeling like I really wanted more understanding between cultures. It seemed to me that so much of what happened on September 11 was because people didn’t understand each other and were suspicious of each other. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
I was about 12 when I first encountered ‘The Moonstone’ – or a Classics Illustrated version of it – digging through an old trunk in my grandfather’s house on a rainy Bengali afternoon. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
I hate it when people throw away food – I’ve seen too many hungry people. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
I came to the plain fields of Ohio with pictures painted by Hollywood movies and the works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. None of them had much to say, if at all, about Dayton, Ohio. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
I interviewed a lot of people in India, and I asked my mother to send me a lot of Bengali books on the tradition of dream interpretation. It’s a real way for me to remember how people think about things in my culture. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
