In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.

How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?

I suppose drama can either take the place of a novel or can be very closely allied with it. It's quite customary to turn a successful novel into a film or a television series because you can dramatize and pictorialize a novel.

Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That's what you could say about it.

They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.

If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?

As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.