When You Write, You Write

I've Never Yet Managed To Write A Novel Which Didn't Have An Indian Central Character.

You Can't Assume If You Do Something Contentious That People Will Be On Your Side. The Moment Violence Enters The Story, The Story Changes. Then The Question Is, "how Do You Face Up To Violence?" And Then You Have To Have A No-compromise Position. And This Is Quite Simply A Lesson We Learn In The School Playground.

Cruelty Is Not A Literary Value.

My Grandmother Was Very Fierce And Gruff. She Was Quite Small, But She Was Very Wide.

Human Beings, You See, Do Absolutely Two Primary Things. We See Like And Unlike. Like Becomes, In Literature, Simile And Metaphor. Unlike Becomes Uniqueness And Difference, From Which I Believe, The Novel Is Born.