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I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don’t like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can’t write.

Vikram Seth

You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
VIKRAM SETH

Inspirational Motivational Yourself
Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
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Book Help Himself Object Place Proper Seek True
God save us from people who mean well.
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God People Protection
I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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Future Material Nostalgia Time World
God save us from people who mean well.
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God One Liner People Save
Those books of mine that are remunerative – I’m not talking about poetry here – take years to write, and I am never sure they’ll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
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Book Oneself Poetry Risk Success Talk Writing
I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I’m quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
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Happiness Interest Myself Quite Subject
Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.
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Blessing Enough Gift Grief Happiness Hope Music Soul Time
Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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Fate Late Time Yourself
Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don’t have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
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Character Establishment Existence Happiness Revision Yourself
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people’s lives, the lives of people you don’t know, and you want to know what’s going to happen to them.
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Fiction Gossip Live People Yourself
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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Boredom Strong Writing
The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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Change Damage Hope Past
And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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Equation Ink Writing
You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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Imagination Myself Novel Poetry Writing
I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Choice Myself

I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don’t like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can’t write.

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I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don’t like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can’t write.

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