I Try To Trace The

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.

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.

People Think That Because I Write About India I Must Be Trying To Portray India In A Way.

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