While Amis has inspired many current generation novelists with his book, there are only a couple of screenplays penned by him and the author says that is because he feels they are bland and don't require writer to do much.
"I never had a good experience writing screenplays. Film writing is actually quite easy because there is no description involved, you just write dialogues. Poetry, fiction are very different. In fact, film writing is not 'writing' in that sense.
"Now, dialogues can either be difficult or easy. But there's nothing more to it," Amis told PTI in an interview.
Pointing out another difference between film writing and book writing, Amis, whose book "The Rachel Papers" was adapted into a movie, says that the latter is solitary and personal, whereas penning for films involve collaborative effort.
"One doesn't have to get into film writing if he or she is a novelist. Wriring a book involves only the writer, it is solitary. When it comes to films, it becomes a collaboration. You talk to people, then producers have to like what you have written..."
"People don't expect things, written on the internet, to be true. It has made people impressionable. It has loosened things up. People are losing the sense of reality. They can be deceived, thanks to the internet," he says.
Amis was in the city for the Tata Literature Live Festival, where he was one of the speakers.
Talking about India, the novelist says that being a young nation, it takes more interest in literature than many other countries.
"But India is a young country, it has the self-awareness a young person has. So, there is more inclination towards language and literature.
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