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

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, You cant know where youre going if you dont know where youve been. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

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.

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

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.

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.