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My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.

I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.

I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.