Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

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

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.

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.

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