I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.

I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.

Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

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

God save us from people who mean well.