Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.

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

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.

Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.