When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.

If it's fiction, then it better be true.

Writing is a lonely business.

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.