I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
I don't care if my books don't sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian readers.
So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries.
English people have seen me get through scandals.
People don't like to be sold, but they love to buy.
My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.
Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions.
What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.
I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.