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I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.

My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk at Yaddo with a month, thinking I have to have a draft of a novel.

I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

I never really wanted to be a writer. I know it sounds strange, but I honestly believe that I didn't pick the story; the story has picked me. I've written absolutely no fiction before 'The Immortals of Meluha.' Not even a short story in school - absolutely nothing.

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.