I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.