Will it do any harm to my sadhana if I attempt stories or a novel?
You can try, if you like. The difficulty is that the subject matter of a novel belongs mostly to the outer consciousness, so that a lowering or externalising can easily come. This apart from the difficulty of keeping the inner poise when putting the mind into outer work. If you could get your established peace within, then it would be possible to do any work without disturbing or lowering the consciousness.
– 21 August 1934
X once told me that she gave up writing because you thought it was doing harm to her sadhana.
What is necessary for one, need not be necessary for another.
– 6 September 1934, Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Poetry and Art