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From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

How can you stop writing?

Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of sorrow is to produce it.

Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.

You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.

IF you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when?

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.

A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.

The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.