“My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt...” — Bharati Mukherjee Quote

“My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land between the country of my past and the continent of my present.”

“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.”

“I'm very moved by chaos theory, and that sense of energy. That quantum physics. We don't really, in Hindu tradition, have a father figure of a God. It's about cosmic energy, a little spark of which is inside every individual as the soul.”

“If you think you're good enough, then you find it preposterous when somebody doesn't acknowledge that... That's propelled me in many ways - maybe thinking I deserve things that I don't at some time. But I'm always willing to put in the work.”

“I was in sixth grade. I loved TV news. I acknowledge that I was also in awe of Barbara Walters interviewing Patrick Swayze and dancing with him.”

“I just ignore the negative people and trolls. They stop bothering you when you don't acknowledge them; it suits me just right.”