Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.

The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.

I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others