It's Not The Gods But Our Own

And The Process Of Reading Is Such A Private One. I Once Came Into A Room Where A Friend Of Mine Was Reading One Of My Books, And He Clicked His Tongue Impatiently And Shooed Me Off.

I Spent Many Years Of My Life As An Economist And Demographer. I Was Finally Distracted By Writing My Novels And Poetry. I'm Enormously Happy That Was The Case. I Feel That With Writing I Have Found My Metier.

I Need My Natural Laziness To Be Counteracted By Obsession In Order To Do Anything.

You Know, I Can Imagine Not Writing A Novel And Writing Poetry Only.

So Many Indian Novels, Quite Unfairly, Do Not Get The Prominence They Should Because They Have Been Written In A Language Other Than English.