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.

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.

The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.