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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

Vikram Seth

I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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Action Myself Thinking Worth
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 am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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Myself Reason Religious Subject Tolerance
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Dreams Inspirational Success Yourself
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
And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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Equation Ink Writing
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
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Discipline Obsession Substitute 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
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
You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally – your ears will know.
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Learning Natural Poetry Way Yourself
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
Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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Greatness Mesmerize Need
You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Inspirational Motivational Yourself
I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Life Myself Understand

I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

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