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Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the 1917 February Revolution, forced exile amidst the anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, the two World Wars and quite a lot of controversy, was an author who never gave up.
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I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word.
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Mythopoeia has taken off in the Indian diaspora because there has been a change in readership from a mature audience to a younger one. This lot has a desperate yearning to reconnect. They want to consume mythology but in a well-packaged and easily digestible way.
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The first thriller ever? It was probably one from 1697. It was called 'Little Red Riding Hood.'
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My wife is troubled by the things I forget. I am troubled by the things she recollects.
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The cleanest book on a dusty bookshelf is usually a dirty one.
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Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.
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Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.