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Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

I want my writing to reach people. I don't write for a market. I write from my heart, something that appeals to me. The marketing, segmenting etc., can be done by your publisher, not you.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.

I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'

After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.

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.

With the DVR, I was mostly writing about it as a good thing in giving us the choice of when and how to watch things. But there's what we lose in the bargain, which is the collective spectacle. 'Did you see Jay Leno last night?'

Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to be moving toward a crisis or climax, it has no true protagonist, and it's structured less like a TV show or a movie than a soap opera.

If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere is really capable of taking on the role that the 'New York Times' and CNN play, then we do need solutions for paying for content.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.

It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.