What is it that drives a person with no fixed income and no fixed address to become a full-time writer? It is a precarious world where you virtually don't know where the next meal would come from. It is a world in a limbo where uncertainty is the guiding principle. Perhaps, it is a kind of 'calling', a divinity that guides us to the Other world of thought and feeling. VS Naipaul's literary autobiography, Reading and Writing: A Personal Account ( New York Review of Books, Special Indian Price