We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very important aspect of human life and worth exploring.

If we want things to be okay, we will have to make things okay.

The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.

Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought to be one of suspicion towards such endeavours. For individuals are undeniably real. Groups, on the other hand, are assertions of opinion.

Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.

Walking is a meditative act. It's so rare that we allow ourselves just to be.

I think writing is a very political act. I think that any writer who says it's not, is simply a writer who is disavowing the political connotations of what they write.