I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.

Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.