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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

Vikram Seth

You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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Existence Goodness Ideas Talk Yourself
God save us from people who mean well.
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God People Protection
It’s not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
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Evil Fear God Heart Need Start
In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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Myself Nation Temptation
And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.
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Friendship Myself Patience Privacy Process Reading Room
Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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Myself Reading
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Discipline Obsession Substitute Writing
And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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Equation Ink Writing
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Dreams Inspirational Success Yourself
Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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Happiness Person Place Power Thinking Yourself
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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English Language Novel Writing
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
I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens – not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens – should talk about things that matter to them.
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Citizenship Important Myself Talk Thinking Writing
There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
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Carry Feeling Goodness Man Writing
Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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Book Goodness Ignorance Praise
I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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Book Myself Thinking

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