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The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.

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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.

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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

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Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.

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Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

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If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

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Originality is dangerous.

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Novelist

Born: June 19th, 1947

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