Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. - Anita Desai

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.

That was the way life was: it lay so quiet, so still that you put your fingers out to touch it, to stroke it. Then it leapt up and struck you full in the face so that you spun about and spun about, gasping. The flames leapt up all around, rising by inches every minute, rising in rings.”