I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

To see things plainly, you have to cross a frontier.

One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'

Good advice is rarer than rubies.

In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.