“I am death; I am this blood, these ravaged lands, and this wanton destruction. – Panchali Draupadi”— Krishna Udayasankar Related Quotes “An important feature of good characterization in a novel is that the characters are dimensionalized and are not all of one piece. Human beings, as Singer noted, have contradictions.”— Joseph Telushkin “He had been inspired to start a career in the porn industry after reading the incredible tale of a Japanese man who avenged the death of his sister by going down on her best friend for seven days and seven nights.”— Mark Jackman “I write fiction not for my readers and not for myself. I write fiction for the sake of those odd heroic characters that are contained therein. They are counting on me as much as I am counting on them.”— Nicholas Trandahl