Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel holds review meeting as Cyclone Biparjoy makes landfall National Disaster Response Force’s (NDRF) Inspector General Narendra Singh Bundela said that the IMD estimates that Cyclone Biparjoy will turn into a depression by tomorrow 12 pm I try to do when I sit down to work, is to write someone’s favourite book.Ĭyclone Biparjoy: Wind speed to decrease by midnight, says MET director It makes me feel close to the story and the characters, so that when I wake up in the morning, I feel like I’m just next door to it, and not a hundred miles away.īridge of Clay has been termed as an adult novel, a shift from The Book Thief. It reminds me of the world I’m trying to create. I tend to list all my chapter headings, over and over, in my notebooks.

I’m very focused on routines, and I like to start work at the same time every day if I can. It makes everything we do worth that little bit more, because we’re not going to be here forever.ĭo you have a ritual you follow before you begin writing? Can you delve into your process? In Bridge of Clay, Death makes a few appearances, with his arm draped over the fridge, or sitting on the telegraph wires with the pigeons…I just feel like death is that one shadow that gives our lives value, and meaning. I’d worked in a school, writing with some kids, and I used Death as the narrator of a small piece of writing, and I thought, ‘Maybe I should put that into the book I’m writing set in Nazi Germany…’ In The Book Thief it was more just the gift of an idea. I never went out of my way to make death such a central role. Can you touch upon this a bit? What brings forth the obsession? The first thing that has to be acknowledged is that you probably won’t make something great…but the greatness lies in attempting it anyway.ĭeath has played a strong role in your narratives.

And the book itself is about the dilemma of pursuing greatness. There were times when I was trapped in the words themselves, trying to set my own new standard. Given that Bridge of Clay is about a person who is seeking a kind of perfection, I think I felt like my writing needed to be more perfect too. I think there’s always a kind of pressure when you’re writing, but it’s more self-induced. Since The Book Thief was received with such an overwhelmingly positive response, was there any kind of pressure you faced while writing Bridge of Clay? There were times when I would speak at writer’s festivals, but mostly I was working consistently on the new book, trying to make it right. I don’t even really wish I could say I was off travelling or having a good time - I was very focused on that book for at least the last decade. For the most part I was working on Bridge of Clay.

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