Writers Make Me Cry

Writers who Moved the Heart

Once in a while, I find a rare gem in some writers who are blessed with the gift of words. They have the ability to bring a story to life, and to touch the readers profoundly.

I found two such persons. Sudarsan Raghavan and Roger Dean Kaiser

These two authors can make me cry for days. I wish I can write like them.

I read the book 'Orphan' by Kaiser. It is a very terribly sad story about his abuse at the orphanage. He said that readers may feel sad but after a few days but they will resume their normal life and their normal feeling again. For people like him, they carry the painfully memories with them for the rest of their lives. It would have been better to die than to live like that. I don't know how he survived the ordeal and live to tell the story. But he did live to tell the story, and through his book, creates a ripple effect on the conscience of American society.


Sudarsan writes about Sudan, the land that the world forgets. He writes the untold story. Here, he writes about a village in Darfur, with such eloquence:

No one lives in Kailek today. Mud huts, their straw roofs gone, are empty. The red earth is scattered with pieces of women's clothing, broken pots and pans, and slippers. Charred trees stand like lone sentries protecting an ugly secret.

The village has fallen silent, save for the chirping of turquoise birds and the wind blowing across the sand. The only residents are stray dogs and limping donkeys that have taken over the homes of their former masters.

Around Kailek, village after village has been burned down, making a homecoming impossible.

The Power of Writing

Paul Auster said:

This sense of connection with strangers - the reason why writing is never going to die out, in spite of all the dire predictions that are made about fiction, in particular, but the written word in general. A book, a piece of paper, a piece of printed paper with words on, written by one person addressed to others, is the only place in the world, I believe, that two absolute strangers can meet on the deepest level. It's something that reinforces our common humanity.

That's the power of writing. You don't feel that in a movie. You don't quite feel it when you look at a painting, although that can be close, but the articulated word, and articulated thoughts, communicated from one person to another, is the province of literature and writing.