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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

Vikram Seth

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
I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Life Myself Understand
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Love Philosophy Rough
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
Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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Book Goodness Ignorance Praise
Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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Greatness Mesmerize Need
You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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Existence Goodness Ideas Talk Yourself
I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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Book Interest Myself Reading
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
Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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Elegant Experience Face Poetry Reading Sad Story Thinking
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
I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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Lazy Myself Natural Need Obsession Order
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Dreams Inspirational Success Yourself
God save us from people who mean well.
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God People Protection
I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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Book Feeling Media Myself News People Space Writing
And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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Equation Ink Writing

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

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