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I work best under pressure, under the influence or when really depressed.
That I will never be able to realize all my dreams.
Living on my own terms. So far, so good.
Still waiting for it.
Yet to come I suppose, or maybe I am just too much of an optimistic and the low has come and gone. I will figure it out a little later in life.
Almost anyone who I find to be inherently good, humble, and happy. If I had to pick one living person for the sake of an answer, I think it would be Bill Gates. Such a brilliant mind, such humility in spite of the excessive wealth and I have always only seen him smile. A true role model.
Err...God? I mean he is supposedly perfect and yet he can be so biased and flawed sometimes. Fascinating figure nevertheless.
God, again. For the exact same reason as above.
Munshi Premchand, Franz Kafka.
Midnight's Children, A Brief History of Time, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Shantaram, Panchtantra and all of Munshi Premchand and Kafka's works.
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
I live movies, and I want to make some myself someday. For me, it is incredibly hard to list only 5 but here you go - To Kill a Mockingbird, Sergio Leone's Man with No Name or Dollars trilogy, Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings Trilogy, One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest, Any of Andrei Tarkovsky's movies, Any of Akira Kurosawa's movies. There are just so many gems out there. It is overwhelming!
Immortality. Just to find out how life on earth finally ends. And if there are indeed aliens planning on visiting us sometime in future.
He was a kind man. The kindest of his kind.
I would love to relive all of my time in a small town or village in Europe of today. Silver years in modern Tibet won't be a bad proposition either.
Dancing.
All of Kafka's works.
In my room, on my laptop, whenever I feel like writing.
Music, because silence can be deafening at times.
Nothing comes to mind.
I usually plug in my earphones, without any music playing, to concentrate better while writing.
Do recipes count? If not, then teen detective novels like Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew.
Yes. Be true to yourself and your readers when writing. You will find it is much easier to express an honest thought in words, than a made-up one.
Avnish Anshu was born and raised in the Indian state of Jharkhand. In a former life, he used to work for a leading tech company and then, at a Gurgaon-based startup. At present, he spends most of his free time writing stories derived from various experiences in life. It is not an easy job for him, given his ultra-sensitive nature and the fact that the last few years have not been the greatest.
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