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

It won't be long before we'll be deafened by the screeches of whistles being blown by whistle-blowers blowing the whistle on themselves.

I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.

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

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.

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