When I Am Writing, I Focus One

Ever Since I Could First Write I Have Been Doing So. When I Was Taught How To Write And Read At School, I Made Up My Mind That This Was What I Love To Do Best And This Was The World I Was Going To Occupy.

Do You Know Anyone Who Would - Secretly, Sincerely, In His Innermost Self - Really Prefer To Return To Childhood?

I Try To Trace The Connection Between The Characters And That Way A Story Or Plot Emerges.

What A Sense Of Possession, Of Confidence, It Gave One To Have Pockets, To Shove One's Fists Into Them, As If In Simply Owning Pockets One Owned Riches, Owned Independence.

India Is A Curious Place That Still Preserves The Past, Religions, And Its History. No Matter How Modern India Becomes, It Is Still Very Much An Old Country.