I Am Coming Back To New York

Strange Thoughts Brew In Your Heart When You Spend Too Much Time With Old Books

In A Sense, Journalism Can Be Both Helpful And Detrimental To A Writer Of Fiction Because The Kind Of Writing You Need To Do As A Journalist Is So Different. It Has To Be Clear, Unambiguous, Concise, And As A Writer Often You Are Trying To Do Things That Are More Ambiguous. I Find That Writing Fiction Is Often An Antidote To Reading And Writing Too Much Journalism.

Let Animals Live Like Animals; Let Humans Live Like Humans. That's My Whole Philosophy In A Sentence.

When I Was Writing 'the White Tiger' I Lived In A Building Pretty Much Exactly Like The One I Described In This Novel, And The People In The Book Are The People I Lived With Back Then. So I Didn't Have To Do Much Research To Find Them.

Never Before In Human History Have So Few Owed So Much To So Many, Mr. Jiabao. A Handful Of Men In This Country Have Trained The Remaining 99.9 Percent—as Strong, As Talented, As Inteligent In Every Way—to Exist In Perpetual Servitude; A Servitude So Strong That You Can Put The Key Of His Emancipation In A Man's Hands And He Will Throw It Back At You With A Curse.