People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.
I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.
Advances don't fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn't really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I'm certainly not going to say no. But it hasn't come my way as yet, and I'm not heartbroken.
I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero.