Howard Roark

Software programmer who loves conversations, writing, psychology, philosophy, music, humour, cricket, cars, guitar, dogs, and big machines.

Books

Sun Sign

Leo

Three things people don’t know about you?

That I’m lazy, nocturnal, and home-bound

Which living person do you most admire?

My mother

Who is your favorite fictional hero?

Atticus Finch, from To Kill a Mockingbird

Who is your favorite fictional villain?

Andrei Taganov, from We The Living

Who are your favorite authors?

Ayn Rand, Upamanyu Chatterjee, P.G.Wodehouse

What are your 5 favorite books of all time?

Three Men in a Boat, To Kill a Mockingbird English, August: An Indian Story, The Catcher in the Rye, The Gitanjali

Is there a book you love to reread?

The Fountainhead

What are your 5 favorite movies of all time?

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Prestige, American Psycho, Shutter Island, The Godfather series

One Superpower you wish you had?

To know the reason behind creations/actions/behaviour

Your epitaph would read? /Last line in your biography would be?

Still got lots to learn

If you had a time machine to take you back to any country and any time period, where would you choose to be for your childhood, adolosent , adult life and silver years?

I’d be Nikola Tesla’s student/assistant, contribute to his inventions, and imbibe his thinking style.

If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?

Shredding notes on the guitar.

Which book you wish you had written ?

Any of P. G. Wodehouse’s

When and where do you write ?

Late nights, at home, typing away on my laptop

Silence or music?

Silence

One phrase that you use most often?

Elementary, Watson!

Do you have a writing ritual / superstition?

Get slightly tipsy

What’s your guilty reading pleasure?

Fifty Shades Of Grey

Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers?

Just write! Don’t write towards an end, or judge if your writing is coherent. Once you have the bits in, you can worry about the bigger picture.

Howard Roark is a Chennai-based software engineer, who derives pleasure from interchanges on psychology and philosophy. He can be reached at hroark911@gmail.com.



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