My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
My father was a successful entrepreneur.
My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.
After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.
It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.
My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.
One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer, he earned a living. And it was a shock for me to find out that it was actually hard to make a living as a writer.
My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.
From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.
If I was a father, and my son told me he wanted to go out and be a publisher, I'd say, 'Go get a job.'