My Children Are English, And Both Of

A Book Is Not Completed Till It's Read.

Writers Have Been In Terrible Situations And Have Yet Managed To Produce Extraordinary Work.

I Learned: The First Lesson Of My Life: Nobody Can Face The World With His Eyes Open All The Time.

What Had Been (at The Beginning) No Bigger Than A Full Stop Had Expanded Into A Comma, A Word, A Sentence, A Paragraph, A Chapter; Now It Was Bursting Into More Complex Developments, Becoming, One Might Say, A Book - Perhaps An Encylopaedia - Even A Whole Language.

In The '50s, Listening To Elvis And Others On The Radio In Bombay - It Didn't Feel Alien. Noises Made By A Truck Driver From Tupelo, Mississippi, Seemed Relevant To A Middle-class Kid Growing Up On The Other Side Of The World. That Has Always Fascinated Me.