Top 83 Quotes by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

There is no conflict in looking good. You buy things you need, and then you do something good for society.

I had friends who died in the 9/11 tragedy; some of my friends lost family members in the aftermath of Godhra.

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.

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.

I write in my study, where I also have my prayer altar. I believe that keeps me focused and gives me positive energy and reminds me that I'm merely the instrument of greater creative forces.

'The Mahabharata,' which inspired my novel 'Palace of Illusions,' also has many stories embedded within the main tale.

I feel I can express the nuances of the Bengali lifestyle and ways of thinking better than other cultures.

Often, writer's block will occur when I don't understand a character or his/her motivations. So I will make notes analysing characters.

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.

We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.'