Well, I wouldn’t characterize that as a part-time/full-time or a working/non-working distinction. I mean, even Kafka had a job. About the writers who have full-time jobs and are not taken very seriously as writers: my question would be, “Do they want to be taken seriously?� I mean, much of the writing in the world has the good sense not to try to be literary – because “literary� at the end of the day is defined as books that sell very little! No one cares whether Harry Potter is literary or not; he reaches more readers than all of south Asian writing put together ever has.
Jai Arjun Singh in conversation with Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid.
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