With the strong women I write about, I want to create a sense of strong possibilities. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
When I was volunteering with Hurricane Katrina refugees in Houston in 2005, I first started thinking about the whole phenomenon of grace under pressure. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
Often, writer’s block will occur when I don’t understand a character or his/her motivations. So I will make notes analysing characters. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
I started writing after the death of my grandfather – memories, poems, etc. It was very personal; for years I did not share my writing with anyone. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
I feel I can express the nuances of the Bengali lifestyle and ways of thinking better than other cultures. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
To make money for college, I worked in our college dining room. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
I came into Chicago in winter – I’d never been so cold in my life! I was very homesick, and a poor student at that time. America seemed so different and so filled with amazing things – and almost all of them were out of my reach. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
I came from a traditional family, and it was an exciting but challenging transition to move to America and live on my own. The world around me was suddenly so different. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
