Relationships Do Not Preclude Issues Of Morality.

I Always Think First About The Nature Of The Story. When I Had The Idea For 'the Namesake,' I Felt That It Had To Be A Novel - It Couldn't Work As A Story.

I Would Not Send A First Story Anywhere. I Would Give Myself Time To Write A Number Of Stories.

Fiction Is The Only Way I Know A Human Being Can Inhabit The Mind Of Another Human Being.

The Urge To Convert Experience Into A Group Of Words That Are In A Grammatical Relation To One Another Is The Most Basic, Ongoing Impulse Of My Life.

She Has The Gift Of Accepting Her Life.