I Wanted To Pull Away

It's Easy To Set A Story Anywhere If You Get A Good Guidebook And Get Some Basic Street Names, And Some Descriptions, But, For Me, Yes, I Am Indebted To My Travels To India For Several Of The Stories.

A Bicultural Upbringing Is A Rich But Imperfect Thing

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

War Will Bring The Revolution; Revolution Will Stop The War.

In New York I Was Always So Scared Of Saying That I Wrote Fiction. It Just Seemed Like, 'who Am I To Dare To Do That Thing Here? The Epicenter Of Publishing And Writers?' I Found All That Very Intimidating And Avoided Writing As A Response.