Surender Mohan Pathak (SMP):

"My job is like that of a cook. She may make the same food everyday but one day, [her food] is rejected and then she has to cook another one… If that does not play, she will have to take a go for the third one. Third one. Like this, I cannot stop. This is my profession.”

Interviewer:

“So, like the cook, you are making books… A cook knows if I put a little of this masala, they will like it better, or if I put this other thing on it, they would like this curry… When you write your books, what will the readers like best?”

SMP:

“Dialogue… My way of writing is that I give preference to dialogue over description. Yeah, because in my personal experience [the reader] will skip chapters that just have description but dialogue they relish. They like dialogue that is good and crisp. They will repeat it and repeat it aloud… Nobody reads description aloud. They escape description. They want to know what is coming next, what is going to come ahead. So they will skip couple of paragraphs… Everybody has their own style. There are writers who don't write dialogue at all or very little. All description, all description. But that is boring.”