Lord Jeffrey Archer considers himself a storyteller, first and especially and then a writer.
The difference, as he explained at the LITFEST when in a conversation with the author of Ravi Subramanian, is that the writing can be taught but telling a good story is “the gift given by God, such as being a ballet dancer, opera dancer or violinist, there is nothing I can do “.
Archer, whose books have sold 275 million copies worldwide, have often visited India, and often launched his books here for unusual reasons.
“The day the book came out anywhere in the world, some Indians who entrepreneurated buy one copy, flew back to India and print it and on the road three days later and there was nothing I could do,” he said.
While he loves India, he is currently hiatus from that feeling.
“I won’t love India for a while because we are in battle with you on Pitch Cricket,” he said, adding that he had got the privilege to meet many Indian Cricketers because they read it, including Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid and Rahul Dravid .
Archer was in the middle of writing the fifth book in his series following the character of William Warrick.
Do not want to write only a police officer or a crime story, he develops an interesting idea.
“I decided my young man would go to the police as a police officer who was surprised.
I will write a different book every year where he goes from the police to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner,” he said.
“I have four years to take him to the commissioner so I have to live a long time to do that.” The 81-year-old child was also recently published, with PAN Macmillan India, three children’s books he wrote for their children 40 years ago.