“I have bougainvillea and a magnolia tree outside my window. Not that a...” — Meghan Daum Quote

“I have bougainvillea and a magnolia tree outside my window. Not that anything will ever beat the view I had from my desk window in my little farmhouse in Nebraska. Just a dirt road stretching out as far as you could see, with prairie grass on either side.”

“I don't think anyone's ever accused me of too much self-love.”

“As a mentor and an advocate, I've seen no end to the ways that childless people can contribute to the lives and well-being of kids - and adults, for that matter.”

“I like things on my desk that are pretty and make a statement. It's important that whatever is on my desk inspires me because that's where I spend a lot of my time working and creating things.”

“My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk at Yaddo with a month, thinking I have to have a draft of a novel.”

“Shibani Sharma got me a job as a translator in NDTV. Then NDTV India got launched and I worked on the desk for a while.”