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Global terror does not respect national boundaries.

Confuse your trail, lose your trail.

A rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life.

I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.

One does not question a miracle.

Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives

The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.

The line of head is strong, but the line of heart is weak. And most importantly, the line of life is short. The stars do not seem to be right.

You must never take a direct route to your destination.

I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.

It's a basic rule of human nature that the promise of unexpected wealth short-circuits both intelligence and common sense.

Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.

appearances can be deceptive and the dividing line between good and bad is very thin indeed.

I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the 'Hindustan Times.'

My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.

Because luck comes from within

Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

It is a destiny of a woman to suffer in silence.

The burning ambition of my life was to marry her one day. The consuming worry of my life was to whether she would agree.

The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.

People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.

I'm the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched.

Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.

I may have entered her body, but now I want to enter her mind.

I held my breath and wished for that moment to last as long as it possibly could, because a waking dream is always more fleeting than a sleeping one.

God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.

There is some pleasure even in pain. A sweet ecstasy.

And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.

Train journeys are about possibilities. They denote a change in state. When you arrive, you are no longer the same person who departed.

Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.

I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

I need to meet people to be able to write.