"There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that..." — Arundhati Roy

I have truly known what it means for a writer to feel loved.

Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again?

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.