PURSUITS OF MY LIFE

A PERMANENT DABBLER IN THE WRITING BUSINESS.

The Writing Process


“Some writers are the kind of solo violinists who need complete silence to tune their instruments. Others want to hear every member of the orchestra—they’ll take a cue from a clarinet, from an oboe, even. I am one of those.

My writing desk is covered in open novels. I read lines to swim in a certain sensibility, to strike a particular note, to encourage rigour when I’m too sentimental, to bring verbal ease when I’m syntactically uptight. I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka, as roughage. If your aesthetic has become so refined it is stopping you from placing a single black mark on white paper, stop worrying so much about what Nabokov would say; pick up Dostoyevsky, patron saint of substance over style.”
― Zadie Smith, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

PUBLISHED 2021

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PUBLISHED 2015

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PUBLISHED 2012

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PUBLISHED 2012

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RHYME OR VERSE


I'll get to do other things, when I am bored of poetry. Which is, like never.

Recital by

Manisha Parashar

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