I Don't Pick And Choose Subjects Or

Think Of Many Things. Never Place Your Happiness In One Person's Power. Be Just To Yourself.

But I Too Hate Long Books: The Better, The Worse. If They're Bad They Merely Make Me Pant With The Effort Of Holding Them Up For A Few Minutes. But If They're Good, I Turn Into A Social Moron For Days, Refusing To Go Out Of My Room, Scowling And Growling At Interruptions, Ignoring Weddings And Funerals, And Making Enemies Out Of Friends. I Still Bear The Scars Of Middlemarch.

I Think If Something Is Worth Doing, It's Worth Doing Well. And Worth Thinking About It As Well.

Revision Has Its Own Peculiar Pleasures And Its Own Peculiar Frustrations. The Ground Rules Are Already Established; The Characters Already Exist. You Don't Have To Bring The Characters To Life, But You Do Have To Make Them More Convincing.

So Many Indian Novels, Quite Unfairly, Do Not Get The Prominence They Should Because They Have Been Written In A Language Other Than English.