Novelists aim for fullness of catharsis, not a political pamphlet. (1996) - Bharati Mukherjee

I am always amazed when reviewers or some literary critics lump all Asian American writers together as being a homogenous group. Whereas within the subcontinental group of immigrants and naturalized American citizens here, we retain our old world ethnic differences. It's the narcissism of the slightest differences, as Freud might say. (2002)

my true material is immigration. In other words, transformation not preservation.

I believe that if you are literate, all literature that you expose yourself to is your heritage to claim