story,orphosis in his and it grew from there.: you said you get sick and tired of telling the truth. alman: the memoir was the longest book i wrote. it was like getting a monkey off my back. i drew a line in the past. if everybody wants to hear about those years, read this 650-page book. you will be sick of it. i want to be the person to tell a story, and i told it. i will go back to the things that first made me want to be a writer. which is to write fantastic tales. i came out of the indian tradition which you grow up with fantastic tales. and i will bring that tradition over, living here for 16 years. charliel: is one easier than the other? salman: this is harder. charlie: it comes from the kind of sense of whatyou turn it int. it was very enjoyable to do, actually. the center of the book, there is what is called the war of the worlds. the supernatural beings are attacking the air of, we have to defend ourselves. is a time of extraordinary conflict. i think it is a time of great uncertainty. the thing that happens in the book,