I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.

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

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.

...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.

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

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.