“I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.”
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
