Tishani Doshi, Author and dancer
What are you most guilty about?
I feel supremely guilty about choosing to be a writer... I feel like there were so many options, worthier things perhaps, that I could have done, but I honed in on the idea to be a poet when I was 20 and I've never let go, never considered that I might have made a mistake about it. Hubris? Pig-headedness? Perhaps. It's such a consuming, indulgent occupation, with so many uncertainties and pitfalls, and so little in terms of payback, it seems an insane thing to do. And I feel guilty in knowing all this but persisting anyway....