"Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other."

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Bharati Mukherjee

#Fiction Quotes #Mainstream Quotes #Reader Quotes

“You cannot truly express yourself until you first discover who you are.”

Source : Gangaji (2007). “You Are That”, p.16, Sounds True
“Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.”

Source : Lydia Davis (2014). “Almost No Memory: Stories”, p.4, Macmillan
“The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of”

Source : Ned Rorem (2013). “The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972”, p.70, Open Road Media
“I always write and create. I'm never not creating. I'm always creating a show, every year, whether it gets picked up or not. I always sell a pilot or an idea. I like to be in control.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Don't you just want to make something that lives forever? Something that's phenomenal, something that's great, something that's undeniable? That touches the core of every person that hears it?”
“We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions.”
“I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.”
“I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.”

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