"Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or P..." — Arundhati Roy

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

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.

All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are not about, 'Oh, did it get a good review in the Guardian?' I don't care.