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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.

A book can be wonderful and powerful and accessible and artful all at the same time.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I was caught on the freeway for hours when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The entire city had to be evacuated. I observed lives threatened by catastrophes and a whole range of behaviour. What could people do during a crisis?

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I'm a very senses-oriented person, and I want to bring readers in on the level of the senses, so they can experience another culture and another place.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I was very fortunate that all my holidays I'd spend with my grandfather, experiencing a much more traditional way of life and listening to these wonderful stories, which I now feel are such an important part of Indian thinking.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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

I am a Hindu, brought up mostly in India.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I want people to be sensitive about how women feel and think.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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

I have a lot of respect and love for children's books.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Immigration was a huge force in changing my outlook. I moved to America 30 years ago. I had to reassess my beliefs, especially about women's roles.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I find that it's really important for me to imagine characters and situations. That allows me a lot of freedom.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

'The Moonstone' was all I could have hoped for. A mysterious, cursed jewel, wrested from India, only to be stolen later from a great British mansion. Enigmatic, dangerous priests who follow it across the ocean in hopes of wresting it back.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

With the strong women I write about, I want to create a sense of strong possibilities.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

By the time we're adults, our ideas have solidified. So I wanted to write for a younger audience, who would perhaps love heroes from other cultures.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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

As I've written more, and as other Indian American voices have grown around me, I strive harder to find experiences that are unique yet a meaningful and resonant part of the American story.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

To achieve important things, we have to sacrifice what's important to us. That's an idea that's very central to Indian thinking.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I realise that a novel and a film are different mediums. As artistes, we need to respect other artistes. It also needs a lot of courage to take risks to experiment and interpret known literary works.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

It's very important to balance things; it's imperative to do something for the society, and women in particular, and help women who aren't in position to help themselves.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I like being myself. Maybe just slimmer, with a few less wrinkles.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

If you look back at the great classics and the epics and myths, they were for everyone. Different people got different things from them, but everyone was invited to participate.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I started putting down my thoughts on paper out of loneliness while I was studying in America. I was very close to my grandfather, and when he died, I couldn't visit home. I started scribbling those thoughts.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Unlike novels with a hero or two heroines, in 'One Amazing Thing,' all the characters tell stories they've never told anyone before, so all the voices become equally important.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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

I have been watching how Indian women are forced to do certain things, as the stories of sacrifice and devotion in mythology demand from them. And then there are inspiring stories about women like the Rani of Jhansi that offer women refreshing role models.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

India lends itself well to fictionalization, but ultimately, it all depends on the writer's imagination.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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

My grandfather was a very strong personality. He certainly ruled his household with an iron fist, even though it was often gloved in velvet!

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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

As I remember my grandfather and those Christmas mornings he gave for a little girl's pleasure, I know that often a big life starts with doing small things.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I've long been interested in the tale-within-a-tale phenomenon. I'm familiar with many tales which use this framework or the device of many people in one place, telling their stories, or multiple storytellers commenting on each others' stories with their own.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

My favorite part was when my grandfather and I would make a special trip to Firpo's Bakery for red and green Christmas cookies and fruitcake studded with the sweetest cherries I've ever tasted. Usually Firpo's was too expensive for our slim budget, but Christmas mornings they gave a discount to any children who came in.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni