I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.