Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.

When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.

O Rakshas, everything is always all right in the end. If it isn't all right, then it isn't the end

I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publicatio n was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways.