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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

I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I’m interested in.
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Force Hard Interest Kind Myself Simplicity Work
In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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Myself Nation Temptation
You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Inspirational Motivational Yourself
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
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
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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Boredom Strong 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 think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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Business Inspirational Myself Possible Talent Thinking Tree
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Dreams Inspirational Success Yourself
In a painting, you can’t make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist’s stroke.
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Artist Paint Progress See Yourself
And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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Equation Ink Writing
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
You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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Inspirational Mom Yourself
Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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God Life Man Partner
I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Life Myself Understand

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