I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable.

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.