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I didn't know V. S. Naipaul very well, and to a large extent, my acquaintance with him was limited to meetings at literary festivals.

I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I began to paint, even though I had come to the U.S. intending to become a writer.

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In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades or platitudes at political conventions.

I haven't reported in grand detail on rituals of American life, road journeys or malls or the death of steel-manufacturing towns. I think this is because I feel a degree of alienation that I cannot combat.

I've immersed myself in reading more and more of American literature, but no editor has asked me to comment on Jonathan Franzen or Jennifer Egan. It is assumed I'm an expert on writers who need a little less suntan lotion...

There is a great deal of freshness and charm in '400 Blows.' There is also a great deal of visual poetry in the way in which Truffaut's camera looks at his beloved city.

All good works of art must ask this question: 'You want to breathe free, yes, but do you know how to kiss?'

I have long held that many of the writers and artists working in the aftermath of 9/11 have presented a faux familiarity with the so-called terrorist mind.

Our public culture is one in which only the young and the beautiful will succeed. If you're forty, you're finished.

Each employed immigrant has his or her place of work. It is only the taxi driver, forever moving on wheels, who occupies no fixed space. He represents the immigrant condition.

India allows you the luxury of a million inequalities. You can be a schoolboy selling tea to passengers sitting in a state transport bus, but you are royalty when compared to a shirtless, barefoot village boy, from what was traditionally...

If India breaks your heart with untold inequalities, it also surprises you with the unheralded achievements of its most humble citizens.

An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own contradictions and complicities.

I'm not ashamed to confess that I often note down many of the crazy things my children say.

I think criticism is often so pallid, so tame. I wish it were more performative.

It's so easy for folks to normalize their opinions, to engage in a groupthink that is damaging.

Most writers censor themselves in awful ways. I do, too.

When I close my eyes and think of a writer, I don't imagine him or her as someone who is sitting above me on a pedestal, blindfolded, holding the scales of justice in one hand! No, I see sentences.

Writers interest me for their style, their obsessions, the ways in which they approach the world.

Any real piece of writing is an act of courage.

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