Iman: "You can't write for the future. You have to write for the people who might pick up your book while you're still" The author says he's not the first writer to have had a difficult time in his life. Iman, i like iti look at some of the older books, like, like midnight children, that it's now in 19 81. It's almost forty years since it came out. And iven now there's a bridge named after samuel beckett and gabriel conroy.