A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have a variety of readers from across the diasporic community, not just from South Asia. I like to write large stories that include all of us - about common and cohesive experiences which bring together many immigrants, their culture shocks, transformations, concepts of home and self in a new land.
A novel is about people.
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
With this book, I truly hope to reach everyone that I don't bump into on the street and share my story.
A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling.
I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people.
Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.
Each person has a literature inside them.
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.