in between the lines...

Someone said... "I think writing does come out of a deep well of loneliness and a desire to fill some kind of gap. No one in his right mind would sit down to write a book if he were a well-adjusted, happy man."

my take on it...
the basic purpose of writing has always been to keep a record.. of anything and everything possible... that is how history has been recorded and maintained..
but thats not the only purpose it serves... many people maintain a dairy in which they write whatever is in their head and heart at that instant of time, the happenings or the lack of them in their lives... the reason to keep a diary could be their lonliness as a result of which they dont share their thoughts with anyone else except the dairy, which for them turns into an individual who fills all the gaps...

some people are not regular writers, but write at times, just to get a few things out of their system... things which cant really be blurted out... and it does help most of the times... to just get things out and let them go forever...

but its not just sad or lonely people who write... happy n satisfied people can also do so... most of the times, it comes out in the form of an autobiography... it might be just to see their life summarised or might want others to read and benefit from it if possible...

during the conversation i said...
"n books also have stuff written in b/w the lines..."
how the text is interpreted varies from person to person... the same words might hold different meanings for different individuals... what one might see as straight, simple and obvious, another might infer something else from it by trying to read in between the lines...
The beauty is... the author might have written the same backed by a completely different line of thought...!
the actual author writes a book... but each time it is read, every reader reforms it and reproduces a personal copy of it based on his own perceptions... and so every reader owns the same book in a distinctive way and discrete capacity...

hence, reading in between the lines and evaluating it is indicative of a person..
one cant really miss reading what the author was trying to say in between the lines...