If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.

The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

When you're writing for the screen you're really thinking all the time of what you have to do to make sure that they have the information that they need, that the emotional thread is not snapped, that the story moves at the right speed, to keep the audience hopefully sitting on the edge of their seats or else weeping or laughing.

I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.

This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .