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

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

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.

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

Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.