Write... Pray!

I want to write. Mostly because I want to be read. Truthfully, because I want to be understood. I love writing because it leaves no scope for an instant response. You might feel the reaction to my writing instantly but you cannot relay it back to me in the same instant. It is perhaps the most escapist in me that loves writing more than the expressionist in me. There's a constant battle. You can at times, listen to respond but you always read to read and understand.  

What I love about writing is that it that it precludes the precondition of a response. Writing is a silent prayer I put out into the world. Let the worthy receive it and be blessed. Let me be blessed by the prayers others put out.... This esoteric confluence of souls through words perhaps is the greatest gift of life... We must cherish it. 

Have you written something lately? Pray! 

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Why do you write?

"The question we writers are asked most often, the favorite question, is: Why do you write? I write because I have an innate need to write. I write because I can’t do normal work as other people do. I write because I want to read books like the ones I write. I write because I am angry at everyone. I write because I love sitting in a room all day writing. I write because I can partake of real life o...nly by changing it. I write because I want others, the whole world, to know what sort of life we lived, and continue to live, in Istanbul, in Turkey.

I write because I love the smell of paper, pen, and ink. I write because I believe in literature, in the art of the novel, more than I believe in anything else. I write because it is a habit, a passion. I write because I am afraid of being forgotten. I write because I like the glory and interest that writing brings. I write to be alone. Perhaps I write because I hope to understand why I am so very, very angry at everyone. I write because I like to be read. I write because once I have begun a novel, an essay, a page I want to finish it. I write because everyone expects me to write. I write because I have a childish belief in the immortality of libraries, and in the way my books sit on the shelf. I write because it is exciting to turn all life’s beauties and riches into words. I write not to tell a story but to compose a story. I write because I wish to escape from the foreboding that there is a place I must go but—as in a dream—can’t quite get to. I write because I have never managed to be happy. I write to be happy."

 - Orhan Pamuk

This is why he is one of my all time favourite authors!