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• ‟ Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story.

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• ‟ When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.

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• ‟ I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.

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• ‟ I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

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• ‟ For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story that corresponded to that phrase.

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