It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story.

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.

What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.

What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.

A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.

What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyones ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.

To remain standing one often has to fall.