“The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned…….. THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.”

“Seamus Heaney is no more Irish than that other poet of the local, universal and eternal, James Joyce. Both men think locally and globally.”

“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”

“Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.”

“He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.”

“To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.”

“Many of my books are banned in Bangladesh. My book was banned in West Bengal too. Its government not only banned my book, it forced me to leave the state too. The new government ban­ned the release of my book Nir­basan in 2012 and a few months ago forced a TV channel called Akash Ath to stop telecast of a mega serial I wrote. The serial was about women’s struggle and how three sisters living in Calcutta fight aga­inst patriarchal oppression to live their lives with dignity and honour. She (Mamata Banerjee) ban­ned me to app­ease some misogynist mullahs.”

“Praise and bless everything in your life! When you are praising and blessing you are on the highest frequency of love. – The Secret”

“They tried to ban a burka, They couldn’t ban a hoodie. We still out here screaming "Teri pehn di puddi!"”

“I've had enough of the Quran in The Netherlands: ban that fascist book.”