I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.

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

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

I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

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.