मुझे लगता है कि अतीत और भविष्य—दोनों से जुड़ने और संवाद करने के सबसे बेहतरीन जरियों में से एक उपन्यास हैं।
I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.
I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.
उपन्यास अतीत को नए सिरे से सोचने, लिखने और देखने का एक जरिया है। साथ ही, यह उन लोगों से बात करने का भी माध्यम है जो अभी पैदा नहीं हुए हैं कि आज हम किन बातों के बारे में सोचते हैं।
A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been born yet about what we think about right now.
A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been born yet about what we think about right now.
एक लेखक और लेखन पर विचार करने वाले के तौर पर, दूसरे लेखकों की मुश्किलें मुझे बेहद दिलचस्प लगती हैं। मैंने अक्सर पाया है कि मेरे छात्रों को वैसी ही समस्याओं का सामना करना पड़ता है जिनसे मैं खुद अपने काम के दौरान जूझ चुकी हूं, हालांकि उनका समाधान अलग होता है क्योंकि वे अलग इंसान हैं।
The problems that other writers encounter are so fascinating to me as a writer and as a thinker about writing. I have found that many times, my students are experiencing problems that I myself have experienced in my work, but the solution is different because they're different people.
The problems that other writers encounter are so fascinating to me as a writer and as a thinker about writing. I have found that many times, my students are experiencing problems that I myself have experienced in my work, but the solution is different because they're different people.
सच कहूं तो पढ़ाना और लिखना एक-दूसरे को ताकत देते हैं, पोषित करते हैं और बेहतर सोच को बढ़ावा देते हैं। क्योंकि जब आप कक्षा में जाते हैं, तो भले ही आपके पास एक उस्ताद या गुरु होने का रुतबा हो, लेकिन असल में आप एक ऐसे लेखक होते हैं जो दूसरे लेखकों को उनकी उलझनों को सुलझाने में मदद कर रहा होता है। जिन समस्याओं को हल करने की कोशिश आपने खुद की है, उनका अनुभव आपके छात्रों को उनकी समस्याएं सुलझाना सिखाने में काम आता है।
Teaching and writing, really, they support and nourish each other, and they foster good thinking. Because when you show up in the classroom, you may have on the mantle of authority, but in fact, you're just a writer helping other writers think through their problems. Your experience with the problems you've tried to solve comes into play in how you try to teach them to solve their problems.
Teaching and writing, really, they support and nourish each other, and they foster good thinking. Because when you show up in the classroom, you may have on the mantle of authority, but in fact, you're just a writer helping other writers think through their problems. Your experience with the problems you've tried to solve comes into play in how you try to teach them to solve their problems.
मुझे लगता है कि ज्यादातर लेखकों के लिए एक ऐसा समय और मानसिक सुकून निकालना बेहद मुश्किल होता है, जिसमें वे अपनी मनपसंद लिखाई कर सकें। साथ ही, दुनिया के बीच रहकर अपने आस-पास के लोगों और समाज के प्रति एक सक्रिय, संवेदनशील और मददगार इंसान की भूमिका निभाना भी आसान नहीं होता।
It's very difficult, I think for most writers, to carve out the time and the kind of imaginative space to do the writing that you really want to do and also to be an active, engaged, compassionate, giving human being in the world, to the people around you and to your broader community.
It's very difficult, I think for most writers, to carve out the time and the kind of imaginative space to do the writing that you really want to do and also to be an active, engaged, compassionate, giving human being in the world, to the people around you and to your broader community.
मुझे लगता है कि 'राइटर ब्लॉक' (लेखन में रुकावट) का विचार अधिकांश लेखकों के लिए खुद को नुकसान पहुंचाने वाला साबित हो सकता है। ऐसा इसलिए क्योंकि इसमें कई ऐसी समस्याओं को, जो वास्तव में छोटी और सुलझाई जा सक किसी एक अस्पष्ट और रहस्यमयी नाम के पाले में डाल दिया जाता है, जिससे यह समझना बहुत मुश्किल हो जाता है कि असल में गड़बड़ कहां है।
I do think that the idea of writer's block can be very self-defeating for most writers because it's taking a lot of things that are not only real problems, but that are manageable, solvable problems if you look at them in an individual fashion, and lumping them under the umbrella of something mysterious and vague, which makes it very, very difficult to address what's going on.
I do think that the idea of writer's block can be very self-defeating for most writers because it's taking a lot of things that are not only real problems, but that are manageable, solvable problems if you look at them in an individual fashion, and lumping them under the umbrella of something mysterious and vague, which makes it very, very difficult to address what's going on.
अगर मैंने यह पूरा साल इस बात पर खुद को कोसने में बिता दिया होता कि मैं उस किताब पर काम नहीं कर पा रही हूं, तो यह साल मेरे लिए बेहद कठिन रहा होता।
It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.
It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.
उपन्यास की कहानी का विकास अंततः एक ही बिंदु पर आकर टिकता है। मेरा मानना है कि इस उपन्यास का जो अंत है (जो कि थोड़ा अस्पष्ट सा है), वह इस किताब की पूरी संरचना को देखते हुए इसका एकमात्र तार्किक अंत है।
The development of the plot of the novel leads to a single point, and it's my opinion that the ending that the novel has, which is a somewhat ambiguous ending, is the only logical ending given the structure of the book as a whole.
The development of the plot of the novel leads to a single point, and it's my opinion that the ending that the novel has, which is a somewhat ambiguous ending, is the only logical ending given the structure of the book as a whole.
जैसे-जैसे मैं पढ़ाती जाती हूं, अपने छात्रों को देने के लिए मेरे पास कुछ नया होता है, और उनसे सीखने को भी बहुत कुछ मिलता है। मैं ऐसे कुछ लेखकों को जानती हूं जो कक्षा से बाहर निकलते ही खुद को पूरी तरह थका हुआ महसूस करते हैं, लेकिन मेरे लिए यह इस बात का संकेत होगा कि शायद अब थोड़ा ब्रेक लेने या अपनी प्राथमिकताओं को दोबारा तय करने का वक्त आ गया है। क्योंकि कक्षा से बाहर निकलते वक्त मेरा उत्साह अंदर जाते वक्त से भी ज्यादा होता है।
As I continue to teach, I have more to offer my students, and as I continue to teach, I have more to learn from my students. I do know some writers who feel very drained when they leave the classroom, and for me this would be a sign that maybe it's time to take a break or refocus because I always leave the classroom even more excited than I was when I walked in.
As I continue to teach, I have more to offer my students, and as I continue to teach, I have more to learn from my students. I do know some writers who feel very drained when they leave the classroom, and for me this would be a sign that maybe it's time to take a break or refocus because I always leave the classroom even more excited than I was when I walked in.
पढ़ाने से मुझे असीम संतुष्टि मिलती है क्योंकि मैं लगातार कुछ न कुछ नया सीख रही होती हूँ। लगातार नए विचारों, नए जीवन अनुभवों, नए नजरियों, कहानी की नई उलझनों और नए किरदारों से रूबरू होना—यह सब मेरे लिए वाकई बेहद रोमांचक है।
Teaching is enormously satisfying because I'm constantly learning more. Just constantly being exposed to new voices and new life experiences and new worldviews and new structural dilemmas and new characters - it's really exciting for me.
Teaching is enormously satisfying because I'm constantly learning more. Just constantly being exposed to new voices and new life experiences and new worldviews and new structural dilemmas and new characters - it's really exciting for me.
मेरे पति टॉम ने हमारी शादी के वक्त यहूदी धर्म अपना लिया था, और इसी वजह से हम यहूदी धर्म में ऐतिहासिक धर्मांतरण के बारे में पढ़ रहे थे। सच कहूं, जब भी यह विषय सामने आता है, यह बड़ा अजीब लगता है।
Tom, my husband, who converted to Judaism when we got married, and as a consequence, we were learning about historical conversions to Judaism. Really, every time it pops up, it's very strange.
Tom, my husband, who converted to Judaism when we got married, and as a consequence, we were learning about historical conversions to Judaism. Really, every time it pops up, it's very strange.
मुझे लगता है कि चाहे आपने अभी-अभी लिखना शुरू किया हो या फिर आपको लिखते हुए पचास साल हो गए हों—यानी जब मैं उस मुकाम पर पहुंचूंगी तो आपको जरूर बताऊंगी—बात चाहे जो भी हो, एक लेखक के रूप में आपके सामने हमेशा यह चुनौती रहती है कि आप अपने काम को पूरा करने के लिए खुद पर पर्याप्त भरोसा रखें, और अपने ही काम के नशे में इतने चूर न हो जाएं कि उसे और बेहतर बनाने की इच्छा ही खत्म हो जाए।
I think that whether you've just begun writing or whether you've been writing for fifty years - I mean, I'm excited to get there and tell you about it when I do - I think that there's always the challenge of believing in yourself enough to get the work done and not being so taken with yourself that you're unwilling to continue to work on the work.
I think that whether you've just begun writing or whether you've been writing for fifty years - I mean, I'm excited to get there and tell you about it when I do - I think that there's always the challenge of believing in yourself enough to get the work done and not being so taken with yourself that you're unwilling to continue to work on the work.
समय सीमित है और हमारी कल्पना के साथ-साथ दुनिया की जरूरतें असीम हैं। इसलिए इन दोनों के बीच किसी तरह का तालमेल बिठाना मेरे लिए एक लगातार और हमेशा बदलने वाली चुनौती है।
Time is finite and the demands of the imagination and also the demands of the world are infinite, so sort of brokering some kind of agreement between those things is a continual, and for me, and ever-changing challenge.
Time is finite and the demands of the imagination and also the demands of the world are infinite, so sort of brokering some kind of agreement between those things is a continual, and for me, and ever-changing challenge.
शायद इसकी एक वजह यह भी है कि मुझे कभी ऐसा महसूस नहीं हुआ कि मुझे 'राइटर ब्लॉक' जैसी कोई समस्या है, क्योंकि मुझे यह जरूरी नहीं लगता कि मुझे हर दिन के हर पल कुछ न कुछ लिखते ही रहना चाहिए।
Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of every day.
Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of every day.
अगर मैं एक हफ्ते या फिर सच कहूं तो एक साल तक भी रोज कुछ न लखूं, तो मैं इस बात को लेकर बहुत ज्यादा नहीं सोचती।
If I don't write every day for one week or even, frankly, one year, I don't really think too much about that.
If I don't write every day for one week or even, frankly, one year, I don't really think too much about that.
मैं उस किताब पर काम तो कर रही थी, लेकिन बहुत अंदर ही अंदर, एक छुपे हुए तरीके से। और मुझे लगता है कि खुद को इस प्रक्रिया का सम्मान करने की छूट देना जरूरी है—बशर्ते आप आलसी न बन जाएं और जब काम करने का मन न हो तो बहाने बनाने लगें। इन दोनों के बीच का संतुलन बनाना थोड़ा पेचीदा हो सकता है।
I was working on the book, but in a very subterranean kind of a fashion. And I think that giving yourself permission to respect that, without being lazy and not doing work when you could be doing work and just don't feel like it - that's a different balance that can be complicated to strike.
I was working on the book, but in a very subterranean kind of a fashion. And I think that giving yourself permission to respect that, without being lazy and not doing work when you could be doing work and just don't feel like it - that's a different balance that can be complicated to strike.
मुझे लगता है कि हम सब बस यही तलाशने में लगे रहते हैं कि आज के हालात के हिसाब से हमारे लिए वह संतुलन कैसे काम करेगा।
I think that we're all always just working on finding how that balance functions for us, given today's circumstances.
I think that we're all always just working on finding how that balance functions for us, given today's circumstances.
मुझे लगता है कि इसका एक दूसरा अंत भी हो सकता था जो बहुत ज्यादा कल्पना की दुनिया में खो जाता, और एक ऐसा अंत भी मुमकिन था जो निराशावाद की हद पार कर जाता। लेकिन सच्चाई यह है कि उपन्यास जैसे-जैसे विकसित हुआ है, अगर यह सही तरीके से काम कर रहा है, तो इसने पाठक के रूप में आपको इतना सक्षम बना दिया होगा कि आप खुद यह फैसला कर सकें कि आप इस कहानी को कहां ले जाना चाहते हैं, या इस दायरे में आप खुद को कहां पाते हैं। तो, यह उपन्यास आपको ठीक उस मोड़ पर लाकर छोड़ देता है जहां आपको खुद फैसला करना होता है, और यह फैसला आप पर ही छोड़ देता है।
I feel that there is an alternate ending that leaps off too far into fantasy and there is an alternate ending that leaps off too far into pessimism, but that, in fact, the novel as it has developed should, if it's functioning correctly, have equipped you as the reader to make your own decision about where you want to go with that, about where you're going to fall on that continuum. So, the novel is taking you directly up to the point that you have to choose, and it's letting you do that.
I feel that there is an alternate ending that leaps off too far into fantasy and there is an alternate ending that leaps off too far into pessimism, but that, in fact, the novel as it has developed should, if it's functioning correctly, have equipped you as the reader to make your own decision about where you want to go with that, about where you're going to fall on that continuum. So, the novel is taking you directly up to the point that you have to choose, and it's letting you do that.
मैं सिर्फ लेखकों और पाठकों के बीच के तालमेल के बारे में ही नहीं सोचती, बल्कि एक पीढ़ी, एक देश या अलग-अलग युगों के तमाम लेखकों के बीच के उस आपसी सहयोग के बारे में भी सोचती हूं जो हमारी इस दुनिया को दोबारा गढ़ने और उसे शब्दों में पिरोने के इस महान काम में अपना योगदान दे रहे हैं।
I think about the collaboration between writers and readers, but I also think about the collaboration between all the writers in a generation or in a country or across time contributing to this massive project of documenting and reimagining our world.
I think about the collaboration between writers and readers, but I also think about the collaboration between all the writers in a generation or in a country or across time contributing to this massive project of documenting and reimagining our world.
जितना कुछ लोग सोचते हैं, उससे कहीं ज्यादा मैं लेखन को एक साझा और सामूहिक प्रयास मानती हूं।
I tend to think of writing as a more collaborative project than I think some people do.
I tend to think of writing as a more collaborative project than I think some people do.
हम (यानी मैं और मेरे पति) खज़र जाति के बारे में पढ़ रहे थे, और उससे एक साल पहले मैंने माइकल शैबन का उपन्यास [जेंटलमैन ऑफ़ द रोड] पढ़ा था, इसलिए ये सारी बातें मेरे दिमाग में घूम रही थीं कि तभी मैं बर्फ पर फिसल गई और मेरी कलाई टूट गई, जिसके बाद उसका ऑपरेशन कराना पड़ा।
We [me and husband ] had been learning about the Khazars, and I had read Michael Chabon's novel [Gentlemen of the Road] the year before, so all these things are kind of roiling around in my brain, and then I slipped on the ice and I broke my wrist, and it had to be surgically repaired.
We [me and husband ] had been learning about the Khazars, and I had read Michael Chabon's novel [Gentlemen of the Road] the year before, so all these things are kind of roiling around in my brain, and then I slipped on the ice and I broke my wrist, and it had to be surgically repaired.
लेखकों के साथ अक्सर ऐसा होता है कि जब आपके सामने सीमाएँ होती हैं, तो आपकी रचनात्मकता को पूरी तरह से निखरने, और अधिक गहराई व विस्तार पाने का अवसर मिलता है, और आप उन दिशाओं में आगे बढ़ पाते हैं जिन्हें आप खुद से शायद कभी न खोज पाते।
It's always the case for writers that when there are limitations, you have the opportunity for your creativity really to blossom and to become deeper and fuller and to move in directions that you wouldn't have discovered on your own.
It's always the case for writers that when there are limitations, you have the opportunity for your creativity really to blossom and to become deeper and fuller and to move in directions that you wouldn't have discovered on your own.
एक यहूदी विचारक के रूप में, मैं खुद को मुख्यधारा की संस्कृति के धर्म से जोड़कर नहीं देखती।
As a Jewish thinker, I don't think of myself in relationship to the dominant culture's religion.
As a Jewish thinker, I don't think of myself in relationship to the dominant culture's religion.
शायद मैं ही वह इंसान हूँ जिसने बातचीत में "डिज़ेलपंक" शब्द का इस्तेमाल शुरू किया। मैं हमेशा से ही बहुत व्यापक स्तर पर पढ़ने वाली पाठिका रही हूँ। मैं शैली-विशेष (जेनर) की किताबें भी पढ़ती हूँ, साहित्यिक कथा-साहित्य भी पढ़ती हूँ और पुरखों द्वारा लिखी गई किताबें भी पढ़ती हूँ।
I may be the person who put "dieselpunk" into the conversation. I have always been a reader who reads in a really broad way. I read genre writers and I read literary fiction and I read books by dead people.
I may be the person who put "dieselpunk" into the conversation. I have always been a reader who reads in a really broad way. I read genre writers and I read literary fiction and I read books by dead people.
एक अच्छी किताब अच्छी ही होती है, और उसे लिखने या पढ़ने के कई अलग-अलग तरीके हो सकते हैं।
A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.
A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.