I think there are differences between men and women. There is more of a softness to women than there is to men, especially when it comes to those more intimate emotions: feeling love, feeling familial connections.

People everywhere feel differently at different times of their lives.

It's not for the writer to say whether the thing is successful or not.

We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are.

There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader.

Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.

I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of, but I didn't want to spend another seven years writing a book like that.