I am prolific. Any rubbish I write gets published, so books keep churning out.

I am not a serious person. I don't claim any profundity for any of my writing.

I've had very little sex. I like my Scotch, but I've never been drunk.

I don't want to be cremated, I want to be buried. I don't believe in wasting wood and I feel that one should give back to the earth.

I turned to the Partition experiences, which were churning in my mind. Then came my first novel Train to Pakistan.

When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.

I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language.