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.

I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from a biography to a classic - to me every week and ask me to write a piece on what I thought about it. On the other hand, my mother used to love reading thrillers and bestsellers.

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.

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.

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.

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