All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.

Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.

I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.