Why you chose a writing career from the rest of others?

[osho]

I am not a professional writer and do not take writing to make a living though at times I do earn a bit through newspapers and magazines when they call for professional write-ups on a range of topics. Writing is like cups of tea or sex or visiting the most exotic places or coming across some of the great godheads like Zen masters or Buddhist monks like Dalai Lama. It is like chatting with girl friends amorously.

It is self exploration and inward navigation and it is of course broadening our horizons of thoughts, experiences, and going beyond the mundane. Writing defies my physical peripheries and I do not want to get tied up to the sets of ideas or cannons set by my elders or predecessors and I want to venture out into the domains few have gone into.

Through books I can easily access the knowledge and experiences people have garnered throughout their lives. The Mahabharata for instance represents an epoch or great streams of time and through this book I can easily know the cultures or social systems of the time. Reading Milton or Shakespeare or Plato give ample ideas and a recourse to the day they had lived.

Reading books is a joy on to itself since I can understand the planet better at different epochs.

Why you do you read and write or choose this literary career?

[Whosis]

That sounds deep.

Why I read is different from my attention to literature as a writer. I read purely for enjoyment or to learn. I write to instruct often. Part of the reason I choose it is because it is enough to challenge me. I command a decent vocabulary, but I may read a passage different from the accepted way. Enjoyment remains a major reason for either. It gives me a sense of accomplishment.

[Dreamwoven]

I would agree wholeheartedly with Whosis: with every word, I could not put it better.