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[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar.
— Bharati Mukherjee
What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?
— Bharati Mukherjee
The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.
— Bharati Mukherjee
A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.
— Bharati Mukherjee
I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.
— Bharati Mukherjee
Humor's the hardest thing to translate.
— Bharati Mukherjee
Dullness is a kind of luxury.
— Bharati Mukherjee
Rebellion sounded like a lot of fun, but in Calcutta there was nothing to rebel against. Where would it get you?
— Bharati Mukherjee
I thought of America as Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner sprawled on the edge of a Hollywood swimming pool biting into the same red apple.
— Bharati Mukherjee
I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel very American. I belong.
— Bharati Mukherjee
I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.
— Bharati Mukherjee
I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'
— Bharati Mukherjee
What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?
— Bharati Mukherjee
The world is divided between those who stay and those who leave.
— Bharati Mukherjee
It's making life important, making a single life important, rather than having a prescription for the global ills which afflict us.
— Bharati Mukherjee
Love on the decline is hard to tell from love on the rise." [From 'The Lady from Lucknow']
— Bharati Mukherjee
Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'
— Bharati Mukherjee
The divorced Indian lady combines every fantasy about the liberated, wicked Western woman with the safety net of basic submissive familiarity.
— Bharati Mukherjee
In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.
— Bharati Mukherjee
Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality.
— Bharati Mukherjee