I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.

If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.

I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.