They asked, "Is it your story?"
"How does it matter, Whose story it is?", The story teller answered.
Why do you write?
To tell a tale.
What is the aim of your writing? Do you wish to achieve anything through your writings?
I am interested only in telling the tale, rest is useless and futile.
Does that mean that you are a complacent writer?
Is there something called a 'complacent lover'??
I write because I love to write and love cannot be forced upon. It should come to you willingly. I can't coerce my pen just to satisfy a few hungry minds. So, if that makes me a 'complacent writer' then so be it.
How much of your writings are based on real life or has autobiographical elements in it?
There is something of us in each of our writings. Period.
There is a striking resemblance between some of the characters and situations in your stories/novels and your life. People say that the character 'Kalpurush' is based on you. How far it is true?
There might be a few resemblances as I have already said that there is something of us in each of our writings but it is difficult for an author to differentiate the real from the unreal or the unreal from the real; for he lives and breathes many lives in his head along with his own. It is only the hand that wields the pen knows where the line blurs and where imagination meets reality.
Any message for the readers and your admirers?
Read the tale not the teller.
36 comments:
and when does d tale come?
Well, I like it this way.
Simple but aggressive in driving the message home.
There is something of us in each of our writings...Very very true
where the pen blurs..luvly expression
Satin smooth overall
TC
CU
:) well said read the Tale not the teller :)
loved ur replies to the question and yes there is something of ourself in what we write TRUE :)
Bikram's Blog
True,
The aim of an artist is to reveal the art, and conceal the artist
Love the art, not the artist
a line well justified...
I totally agree with what you wrote.
But then, we all want to know what goes in an artists mind, don't we?
Cheers
Blasphemous Aesthete
lovely
:)
Waiting for more tales, Ms. Teller..
Reading just the tale, hmm... it depends.. Some tales force us to believe that its the story of the teller, Chetan Bhagat's for instance.. :)
Vivek.
Beautiful!!!!
@ Tomz,
Ha ha...the tale will tail in sometime :)
@ Makk,
:)
Glad to hear that :)
I liked the last line the best - Read the tale not the teller :).
how hard to differentiate the two...where does one end and the other begin...interesting interview...
:-) Tale and the teller. But where is the tale!!
I'm able to relate myself alot with this post :)
"Read the tale & not the teller. "
"There is something of us in each of our writings"
superb lines ,will remember this for a loooong time :)
its really an awesum thing.....may b u hv answered many a things in jst such small thing....
spl where pen meets reality.....its so so true.... :)
I thought I left a comment yesterday but seems like. I actually came to check response.
It is a very good post.
Read my 'stories' ...not me...Good SH@S...
ok so that was not so an interview :)..so far they have been poems..which honestly speaking..most of the time i dont understand :P
//Read the tale not the teller! Super!
*bow*
@ Compassion Unlimited,
Thanks! for your comment and also for mentioning Buddhadev Dasgupta in the cbox. I had no idea who he is. So, I googled him and was happily surprised to know that there was a movie named 'Kalpurush'. Someone was using this word as his pseudonym and I liked the word so much that I ended up using it in the post.
@ Bikramjit,
Thanks!
@ BA,
Thanks! Ya, you are right in saying that the readers are eager to know/read the writer's mind which i have made obvious by making the interviewer ask rhetorical questions.
@ Sankoobaba,
Thanks! :)
@ Vivek,
Thanks! Its so tough telling tales. I would love to hear one, instead :)
Chetan Bhagat's novels are largely based on his own life and he admits it. So, there is no doubt there :)
@ Creativity,
Thanks! :)
@ Harini,
Thanks!
hmm..Nice Tale !
@ Brian Miller,
Thanks!
@ Insignia,
Hmm...shall ask the teller in the next interview :)
Wonderful outcome...
Nice blog you have..
Thanks for visiting me yaar.. Keep coming..
Cheers,
That was good.
Wonder what prompted this post?
Oohh...looking forward to the tale. ;)
Hey nice one!!
well done...!
1 of the nicest writings I came across...i like them..
PS thanks for the visit.
@ Sathish,
Thanks! :)
that closing line is just perfect!
Amazing way of narrating the whole conversation & enforcing the message strongly..
Happy Diwali..!!!!! :)
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