When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.

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

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

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

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

What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence.