People would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many of whom were menaced and receiving anonymous phone calls of the very menacing kind and so, almost everybody - not everybody, but almost everybody held the line.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up in a city obsessed by cinema and where there are cinemas on every street corner.

Home is the place where you feel happy.

In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth.