For What Its Worth!

It is almost every writer’s dream to make an impact through their writing. To all the serious writers, the impact they hope to make has been more important than commercial success their books gained. Of course commercial success is a way the author knows his book had succeeded, but is every successful book worthy enough to have an impact on its reader?

An author’s quest is to make difference, to show a reader the true extent of literature, to show them that the books they are reading have the capacity to change their lives. But in this quest to finding the right words, the right sentences and the right way to phrase them, one more or less often loses his sanity.

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

There are millions of writers across the world, and billions of books, the labyrinth of books that one had never heard of is never ending, and the pile of books one wants to read is a challenge in itself. Amidst the complexities of this competitive profession of being a writer, to write something that will bring us fame and at the same time makes an impact on the reader is more or less a hopeless quest. And the writers who strive with the minimal hope amid this competition, are in a way warriors...Read More