I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually you begin to think like a writer. Ideas are not found - they are shaped.

I think you have to make time for yourself so that work doesn't become the end-all be-all.

I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

I think when the people in Burma stop thinking about whether or not they're free, it'll mean that they're free.

When a chap is passionate, the readership can sense it.