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Instead of becoming a great shikari, as my mother and stepfather might have wished, I had become an incurable bookworm and was to remain one for the rest of my life.
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I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back.
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I liked the old comic books, especially the funny ones like 'Popeye' and 'Beetle Bailey.'
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Small places intrigue me. Whenever I tried moving to a larger city, I ran back to the hills.
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I have always discouraged young writers from self-publishing, by which I mean going to a vanity publisher and spending your hard earned savings - say, some two-three lakhs - and getting your book printed. It's not published; it's printed!
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All my works over the years have been autobiographical in the sense they reflect some part of my life, although I have fictionalised them to an extent.
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Books of exploration have always fascinated me, like somebody going up the Amazon for the first time.
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My desk is right next to my bed. So I sit on my bed. I write in a big notebook which is on the desk. And if I feel drowsy, I just have to slide into bed.
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From the age of 17 through my 20s, I was living on my own, so sometimes I wouldn't even tell anybody it was my birthday. It was not a big thing for me.
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A lot of school-going children are familiar with my writing. I am basically very much a children books author.
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I am hopeless with machinery. I could never learn to drive a car except into a wall.
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I did all kind of jobs to sustain myself. I worked at a grocery store, in the public health department, and what was then Thomas Cook and Sons. The last job was particularly interesting, but I got fired from it.
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I wouldn't want a film to be made on my life, because I suppose I would only want them to show all the good things about me and hide the awful things, and that wouldn't be a very honest biopic, no?
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I write mostly for pleasure, and the reading should ideally be for pleasure, too.
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When I ventured into writing at the age of 17, I wanted to be a good and successful writer. I just wanted to write good stuff - poems, prose, stories, essays, everything.
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Occasionally, I have written about stories related to crime, but I have never attempted a traditional detective story. So I want to write a true detective story.
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In the '50s, '60s, '70s, before television became easily accessible, even the most well-known writers were not recognised. The writers remained mostly an anonymous lot then.
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Respect the language in which you write. Be kind, develop good vocabulary, and be creative in writing beautiful sentences. Your prose should be your poetry when you write.
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If four or five days go by, and I haven't written anything, I feel incomplete.
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If you enjoy your journey as a writer, you will never find it difficult to write.
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I get inspiration from a lot of things around me - nature, hills, people, and even insects.
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You may not enjoy loneliness, because loneliness is sad. But solitude is something else; solitude is what you look forward to when you want to be alone, when you want to be with yourself. So, solitude is something we all need from time to time.
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I'm a pickle fiend. I like all kinds of pickles: garlic pickle, lemon pickle, mango pickle, jackfruit pickle, you name it.
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