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Madness and death

26 March, 2007 by Amit Varma

There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.

That’s Robertson Davies, quoted in an excellent feature on the difficulties of being a first-time novelist by Kate Kellaway, “That Difficult First Novel.”

Madness and death are immensely appealing. I think I need a frappe.

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Amit Varma is a writer and podcaster based in Mumbai. He has been a journalist since 2001, and won the Bastiat Prize for Journalism in 2007 and 2015. He writes the blog India Uncut and hosts the weekly podcast, The Seen and the Unseen.

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