When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.

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.

Right thinking is your best light in this dark universe

Dream 2 Defy! Extreme is not a style but a way of life.

Company is a burden to those at home in the solitude of their souls.

The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

Adam Smith was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and on politics.

Every kid I knew had a father with a little stash of men's magazines which the father thought was secret and which the kid knew all about.

This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation.

I live a pretty conservative life, so I probably really haven't done anything crazy.

When you know and feel the miracle that you are, you become certain that nothing is impossible for you.