In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

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

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

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

I didn't become a writer to write about me.

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.

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.