India to someone who lives in Lahore is like Queens to someone who lives in Lower Manhattan - it's not far away, and yet it doesn't exist.

Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'

In a way, every parent is sort of dependent on the benevolence of the society around them to take care of their children.

I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of people on that common ground.

It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . .

I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and those characters live their lives.