Ask the Author: Carlo Pizzati
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Carlo Pizzati
Write it out. Keep writing even if you think it's just trash. Then throw the trash away. The good pages do come back. You do have to stick with it. Having other writers tell you this, repeatedly, can help. I believe in the brotherhood and sisterhood of the craft.
Carlo Pizzati
The freedom to explore what you want, in your mind, with your voice. No one will tell you where your pen (or keyboard) can take you, not even editors. You're alone. Which is both exhilarating and at times tough.
Carlo Pizzati
Follow this vocation only if you feel it's necessary for you. As you might've heard, it's not easy. It's true. Ask yourself, in the depth of your truest self, if you really need to write in order to make sense of life and to somehow get on with it. If the answer is yes: write everyday. If the answer is no: spare yourself a challenge which is long and arduous, but if it's the right one for you, can give you great, mostly private, joys.
Carlo Pizzati
I am working on a collection of short stories due to be published by Harper Collins India in the Autumn of 2020 and I will be publishing my next novel in Italian in the summer of 2020, while working on my next big project which has been waiting for decades to be written. Very much looking forward to it.
Carlo Pizzati
I've always like to observe in awe and with some sense of surprise and curiosity everything that is around me. The city life, life in rural settings, in the workplace, within the family. I'm fascinated by what drives people to do what they do, and particularly I am interested in what happens in the intermingling of cultures, since I've lived for long periods in many different continents like Europe, North and South America and Asia. The scenery changes, but human tales are often the same.
Carlo Pizzati
My most recent book is "La Tigre e il Drone" in Italian. It's a journey throughout Asia documenting the changes that have happened in this continent in the last 10 years from a very Indian perspective. The idea came after living in India and travelling as a correspondent around Asia since 2008 and seeing that there was no book, at least not in Italian, that approached comprehensively the subjects of civil rights, climate change, technology, and religious conflict as agents of transformation in Asian societies.
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