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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.

I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have written about a certain theme, but by reading the letters or reviews, I realise that everybody sees the book differently.

Literature has become my life.

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.

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.