I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.

I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.

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

Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.

And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.

You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.