Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time.
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.