Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.

Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.

It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.