Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?

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.

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.

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

Truth is not a stereotype.

Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves

Hope is a stance, not an assessment.

Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.

I got into music when I was 12, 13.

I am extremely lucky; I've never been ill - although about 20 years ago I broke my right arm hang gliding.

I think I'm more prolific in the songwriting.

Ohio, you're too white, too many white people to be in any way meaningful in a presidential election.

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.