Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.

Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.

Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?

The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.