“In a separate statement, Little, Brown publisher and senior vice president Michael Pietsch said [that…] Viswanathan is ”a decent, serious, incredibly hard-working writer and student, and I am confident that we will learn that any similarities in phrasings were unintentional.'”

—The Boston Globe, April 25th

“No. I haven’t [started writing the sequel] and I probably should. But I’m actually terrified about the writing process this time around. What if I find out I have nothing to say? What if I can’t write? I just wish I could just move forward to the time when the sequel would be written and I could go around promoting it. I enjoy that part.” (smiles)

—Kaavya Viswanathan, The Hindu, April 23rd