Why Write?

“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. Why did the oil refineries …

 John Steinbeck — Pulitzer Prize winner, Nobel laureate, love guru — with six tips on writing, culled from his altogether excellent interview it the Fall 1975 issue of The Paris Review. Abandon the idea …

To my writing classes I used later to open by saying that anybody who could talk could also write. Having cheered them up with this easy-to-grasp ladder, I then replaced …

Mark Twain shaped the American literature in its formative years. He created a language style of his own, peppered with humor, sarcasm and social criticism. Some of his best known …

What my dentist cried out one day after finally removing an unsuspected fourth nerve from one of my molars comes to mind each time I try to understand myself as …

A British writer of Indian lineage, V. S Naipual, who is credited with the creation of works like, A house for Mr. Biswas, The Middle Passage, An Area of Darkness …

These are rules I’ve picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I’m writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what’s taking place in …

I remember a friend once asking me on a lazy day in a chickoo orchard, “Do you ever worry that with all the writing you do, you might write yourself …

In the early 1930s, Henry Miller penned down what he called 11 commandments on writing while working on Tropic of Cancer, the novel that will launch him into literary stardom …

From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen …