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Novelists aim for fullness of catharsis, not a political pamphlet. (1996)

— Bharati Mukherjee

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Literature can help bring about change of hearts and minds and then put pressure for political, legislative change. (2007)

An author focuses on a few individual characters, and hopes that a larger frisson of emotion and revelation comes across to the reader. (1996)

I was born into a class that did not live in its native language. I was born into a city that feared its future, and trained me for emigration.

A Four Hundred-Year-Old Woman" in The Writer on Her Work: New Essays in New Territory (1991)

I believe that if you are literate, all literature that you expose yourself to is your heritage to claim
or reject. (from 1996 interview)

The most moving form of praise I receive from readers can be summed up in three words: I never knew. Meaning, I see these people (call them Indians, Filipinos, Koreans, Chinese) around me all the time and I never knew they had an inner life.

A Four Hundred-Year-Old Woman" in The Writer on Her Work: New Essays in New Territory (1991)

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