Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

A person who is tired of London is not necessarily tired of life; it might be that he just can’t find a parking place.

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.

You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.

It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians.

There's a lot of sensuality that I associate with travel. And that's romance.