Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
From Salman Rushdie
A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.
When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.
I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.
My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.
The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.
Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
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