Look Who flirted with Advertising - mera number kab aayega!!

Hugh Hefner – Founder, Playboy Magazine(Worked for Carson, Pirie & Scott and Esquire)

Salman Rushdie – Booker Prize Winner(Worked for O&M and Ayer & Barker)

Alec Guinness – Actor(Worked for Arks Publicity)

Ogden Nash – Poet(Worked for Doubleday Publishing)

Shobha Dé – Columnist & Novelist(Worked for Nari Hira’s Creative Unit)

Dorothy Sayers – Author(Worked for SH Benson’s)

Hugh Grant – Actor(Worked for a London agency)

Joseph Heller – Author(Worked for Time & Look magazines as copywriter)

Rahul Bose – Actor / Director(Worked for Rediffusion, Bombay)

Helen Brown – Publisher & Editor, Cosmopolitan(Worked for Foote, Cone & Belding)

Vikram – National Award winning Tamil Actor(Worked for Lintas, Chennai)

Writing

BUKOWSKI ON WRITING

if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of yourheart and your mind and your mouth and your gut,
don't do it.
if you have to sit for hoursstaring at your computer screenor hunched over your
typewriter searching for words,
don't do it.
if you're doing it for money or fame,
don't do it.
if you're doing it because you want women in your bed,
don't do it.
if you have to sit there and rewrite it again and again,
don't do it.
if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,
don't do it.
if you're trying to write like somebody else,
forget about it.
if you have to wait for it to roar out of you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.
if you first have to read it to your wife or your girlfriend or your boyfriend or your parents
or to anybody at all,
you're not ready.
don't be like so many writers,
don't be like so many thousands ofpeople who call themselves writers,
don't be dull and boring and pretentious,
don't be consumed with self-love.
the libraries of the world have yawned themselves to sleep over your kind.
don't add to that.
don't do it.
unless it comes out ofyour soul like a rocket,
unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it.
unless the sun inside you is burning your gut,
don't do it.
when it is truly time,
and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you.
there is no other way.
and there never was.

The above words were penned by Charles Bukowski