Bharati Mukherjee Quotes

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

Some people say, 'Write what you know.' My thing is, 'Write what scares you.'

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

I say it's easier to write for other people than write for myself.

Music, art, writing - it gives us a sense of who we are, a sense of our history, a sense of our future and it should provide some kind of comfort. It's not just entertainment for entertainment's sake, it's an investment.

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

It's no coincidence that I began writing the day my daughter started school. I knew everything I knew before I began to write, but I was raising two children and didn't have the time to get to the typewriter.

My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

Art helped give me confidence.

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.

I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.

I never like to think that I design for a particular person. I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be, and - to some degree - the woman I'm still a little piece of.

You've got to live life to write a book about it.

I didn't realize when I first started writing how much it would set me free from certain situations in my life. It's incredible.

The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.

I never want kids to walk away after a school presentation and say, 'I met a writer today.' I want them to say, 'I am a writer.'

I want young readers to know that to tell their own story is the most important thing they'll ever do.

Writing has always been an incredible outlet for me to feel like I have a voice, even when sometimes I was the only one reading my work. It has been a way for me to unlock my imagination. That's when the world becomes yours, after all.

Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and resistance. There is nothing better than that.

I'm not here to write a song for you, I'm here to help you write a song for yourself.

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture forms, and where it all begins.

One of the most satisfying aspects of writing is that it can open in us deep wells of hidden treasures that are beautiful for us as well as for others to see.