Having gone through thousands of books in my life, I find that my desire is still insatiable, but when I turn to the modern writers, I find that majority of them write for their various reasons and none of them write for the sake of writing, and I hardly find the punctuated lines of Bacon, witty satire of Swift, aphorism of Bertrand Russell, direct indirect style of Hemingway, description of Thomas Hardy, technicalities of Addison, Steel, and Charles Lamb, the profoundness of discourse, use of precise diction, and what I find is merely an ugly reflection of the writings of the past masters.

Not that there are no good writers, there are many but due to economic and geographical reasons they don't get access to the publishers who are gathering their bounty by publishing rich writers, irrespective of the value of the content and style of writing.

Though there are many writing contests, I find that almost all of them are highly manipulated and organized to increase the popularity of their sites or organizations.

The art of writing is gradually diminishing because the modern generation avoids the volumes of books which they must have read before picking the pen.

I might be highly opinionated but I can't help it. I would not like to get any negative feedback because I have not written this piece to instruct you or guide you, it is a kind of catharsis to me. I had to say and I have said it.

I love you all

Rajasir