My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!

Interacting with Indian children was so fulfilling. They are so affectionate. Every school I've visited, I've been overwhelmed by the enthusiasm and love they've showered me with!

Making reading an enjoyable activity for children is a challenge. So I ensure that I write in a way that is fun for children to read.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

Life is entirely unthinkable without any of the creative arts, and they're all a continuum - the force in question is creativity, not its mode of expression.

The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

I love working in television and film, but it's completely different. The theater will always be my home. So I would love to be a lady who gets to work in all of the mediums and who calls the theater her home.