Ravi Subramanian Quotes

I think you can spread yourself across any number of genres when you're a writer as long as you have a deep, abiding love for each of them.

Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different.

There's no reason why a writer shouldn't explore and use different genres.

I want to have new challenges and write new crazy books because I think it makes me a better writer to be insecure and try new things.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.

I'm an author who likes assignments, who needs suggestions, ideas I would never have thought of otherwise - then something happens inside my alien head. Other people have to decide whether or not I'm a good writer, but I do have the ability to write in different styles.

One of the things I've tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I'm able to broaden people's expectations of what I'm allowed to do.

Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world.

The stories that are out and the things that have been published are a sample of my interests. There are genres and sub-genres that I haven't waded into but have wanted to, or have waded into in other places but never actually written.

I just loved the idea of writing for different personalities all the time.

We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.

I don't work on poems and essays at once. They walk on different legs, speak with different tongues, draw from different parts of the psyche. Their paces are also different.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.

I throw everything I have into whatever story I'm writing - and so there's something immensely gratifying about finishing one piece and then starting fresh with a new setting, time period and cast of characters, getting to see the world through a completely different lens each time.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's also crucial to me that I take on challenges. If write only inside my comfort zone, I'll suffocate.

I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in any kind of writing, we have to learn to allow ourselves to approach it in a contemplative way.

Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.

If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.