Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.

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

Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.

Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.

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.

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.