Literature can help bring about change of hearts and minds and then put pressure for political, legislative change. (2007) - Bharati Mukherjee

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

I have been murdered and reborn at least three times; the very correct young woman I was trained to be, and was very happy being, is very different from the politicized, shrill, civil rights activist I was in Canada, and from the urgent writer that I have become in the last few years in the United States. I can't stop. It's a compulsive act for me. It's a kind of salvation, and the only thing that prevents me from being a Joyce Carol Oates, and I'm not talking about quality, but just that need to create, is schedule.