If The Creative Artist Worries If He

One Minute You've Got A Lucky Star Watching Over You And The Next Instant It's Done A Bunk.

What I've Always Tried To Find In My Books Are Points At Which The Private Lives Of The Characters, And Also My Own, Intersect With The Public Life Of The Culture.

To Understand Just One Life You Have To Swallow The World ... Do You Wonder, Then, That I Was A Heavy Child?

Your Blasphemy, Salman, Can't Be Forgiven. To Set Your Words Against The Words Of God.

When You Are Writing A Book, It Feels As If You Are Simply Concentrating On The World Of The Book And That Whatever Is Happening In Your Personal Life Is Outside The Room, As It Were. But Maybe That's Just The Way You Have To Talk To Yourself To Make It Possible.