My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability, as a child, to lie with a straight face.

The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That’s why it’s getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish instead!

Writing is possibly an art but crime writing is definitely a craft.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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