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• ‟ I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

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• ‟ Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.

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• ‟ I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.

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• ‟ Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.

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• ‟ Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

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• ‟ Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?

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