I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

Good advice is rarer than rubies.

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that we enjoy in these lucky countries of the world.

Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.