"I want to think that every character is a little-I guess like Flaubert saying "Emma Bovary, c'est moi"-that I am the characters but the characters aren't me"
— Gustave Flaubert

January 1, 1970

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1996 interview in Conversations with Bharati Mukherjee Edited by Bradley C. Edwards (2009)