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

Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.

I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.

Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.

I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.