A Cat Only Has Itself.

The Reason Is That They Define How I Have Gone About My Business. I Have Trusted To Intuition. I Did It At The Beginning. I Do It Even Now. I Have No Idea How Things Might Turn Out, Where In My Writing I Might Go Next.

Making A Book Is Such A Big Enterprise.

I'm Thought To Be A Tough Writer, But I'm Really A Softie.

I Think When You See So Many Hindu Temples Of The 10th Century Or Earlier Disfigured, Defaced, You Realise That Something Terrible Happened. I Feel The Civilisation Of That Closed World Was Mortally Wounded By Those Invasions The Old World Is Destroyed. That Has To Be Understood. Ancient Hindu India Was Destroyed.

Whatever Extra There Is In Me At Any Given Moment Isn't Fully Formed. I Am Hardly Aware Of It; It Awaits The Next Book. It Will - With Luck - Come To Me During The Actual Writing, And It Will Take Me By Surprise