Suketu Mehta Had The Same Problem

"...the point is that not only do they know what I am doing, but they suspect - with good reason - that I'm doing it about them. In fact, I'm beginning to get the feeling that some of them are posing for my writing, are expanding their characters, or assuming new ones, in order to be caught and recorded on my pad."

- Simon Grey on how the people at his favourite Barbados bar realised he was writing about them.