“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Held at gun point

I had quite forgotten about the existence of this blog, until a friend gently reminded me that he would personally come over and hold me at gun point unless I write again. I am both amused at the hilarity of this warning and touched at his gesture of motivating me. Writing had been my passion until a few years back and I needed no external push to get my pen scribbling. Anecdotes, stories, daily incidents, musings everything got penned down with great enthusiasm. However off late this urge to write began receding until now when I need to be threatened by a possible physical assault or get laden by emotional guilt to start punching the keys again. Am I just plain lazy or is it something deeper like a personality change I wonder.