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• ‟ To me, characters are at the heart of great literature.

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• ‟ I interviewed a lot of people in India, and I asked my mother to send me a lot of Bengali books on the tradition of dream interpretation. It's a real way for me to remember how people think about things in my culture.

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• ‟ I find that it's really important for me to imagine characters and situations. That allows me a lot of freedom.

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• ‟ After September 11, 2001, I was feeling like I really wanted more understanding between cultures. It seemed to me that so much of what happened on September 11 was because people didn't understand each other and were suspicious of each other.

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• ‟ As I lived on in America, I got to truly know the people of this country - so many kind and wonderful people, people of so many races - who helped me in so many ways. Who became my friends. I realized that underneath our different accents, habits, foods, religions, ways of thinking, we shared a common humanity.

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• ‟ To some extent, I draw on what I see around me; in other places, I imagine what I write.

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• ‟ I write best late at night, when everyone in the house has gone to bed. There's something magical about that late night silence that appeals to me.

  - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni