Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.
After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.
I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done by men. It was more often done by men than by women, if we're going to be truthful.
Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like.
