Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.