Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Famous Quotes & Sayings
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As a writer, I have to show complexities. Through my writings, I hope to bring out people in different situations and not just one-dimensional beings.
why man found himself driven to wrongdoing in spite of good intentions, Krishna replied, Because of anger and desire, our two direst enemies.
She lifts a bowl of kheer and her thoughts, flittering like dusty sparrows in a brown back alley, turn a sudden kingfisher blue.
Looking down from the heights of Maslow's pyramid, it seems inconceivable to us that someone could actually prefer bread to freedom.
It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind.
Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified.
'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.
'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.
A well-meaning man, Dhai Ma liked to say, is more dangerous because he believes in the rightness of what he does. Give me an honest rascal any day!
Rakhi likes the comfortable clutter of her life, the things she loves gathered around her like a shawl against the winterliness of the world.
I feel I can express the nuances of the Bengali lifestyle and ways of thinking better than other cultures.
The Mahabharata might have been a great and heroic battle, but there are no winners. The losers, of course, lose.
Immigration was a huge force in changing my outlook. I moved to America 30 years ago. I had to reassess my beliefs, especially about women's roles.
But inside loss there can be gain, too,like the small silver spider Bela had discovered one dewy morning, curled asleep at the center of a rose.
A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself.
Everyone has a story. I don't believer anyone can go through life without encountering at least one amazing thing.
India has been a very accepting culture. We pride ourselves on that. That is a global truth. In fact, it forms a major theme in my books.
'The Mahabharata,' which inspired my novel 'Palace of Illusions,' also has many stories embedded within the main tale.
Sometimes
she knows this from her own life
to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.
she knows this from her own life
to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.
My grandfather was a very strong personality. He certainly ruled his household with an iron fist, even though it was often gloved in velvet!
I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son.
There is no conflict in looking good. You buy things you need, and then you do something good for society.
I think, we all learned that when we are afraid it's easy to want to blame, and the people we want to blame are the people who don't look like us.
Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people ... Fennel ... smelling of changes to come.
Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from 'The Mistress of Spices.'
In many immigrant families, the parents are just talking and talking about the home country until the children are like, 'Oh, don't tell us any more.'
We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.'
I think writers from both East and West have long been fascinated by the ancient tales and the opportunity to reinterpret them.
A kshatriya woman's highest purpose in life is to support the warriors in her life: her father, brother, husband and sons.
I want my books to force readers to recognise the fact that a woman is a human being just like them.
Try to remember that you are the instrument and I the doer. If you can hold on to this, no sin can touch you. Instrument,
Ii would no longer waste time on regret. I would turn my face to the future and carve it into the shape I wanted. - Panchali
Ah, now I have learned how deep in the human heart vanity lies, vanity which is the other face of the fear of being unloved.
Often, writer's block will occur when I don't understand a character or his/her motivations. So I will make notes analysing characters.
A situation in itself," he said, "is neither happy nor unhappy. It's only your response to it that causes your sorrow.
To achieve important things, we have to sacrifice what's important to us. That's an idea that's very central to Indian thinking.
Can our actions change our destiny? Or are they like sand piled against the breakage in a dam, merely delaying the inevitable?
I had friends who died in the 9/11 tragedy; some of my friends lost family members in the aftermath of Godhra.
All of us groping in caverns, our fingertips raw against stone, searching for that slight crack, the edge of a door opening into love.
You could also call it waking,' Krishna continues. 'Or intermission, as one scene in a play ends and the next hasn't yet begun.
I started writing after the death of my grandfather - memories, poems, etc. It was very personal; for years I did not share my writing with anyone.
I write best late at night, when everyone in the house has gone to bed. There's something magical about that late night silence that appeals to me.