Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.

Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.

Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.

Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.

I will come back to India - so deal with it.

The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it -when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.