I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.

I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.

Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.

One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.

I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.

I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.