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

To remain standing one often has to fall.

After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.

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.

Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!'

Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.

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