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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.

Vikram Seth

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
I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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Goodness Myself Nature Person Thinking World
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
Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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Myself Reading
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
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
I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Life Myself Understand
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Dreams Inspirational Success Yourself
It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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Beyond Excitement Intrigue Live Present Time
And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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Equation Ink Writing
I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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Myself Obesession Reputation Work
God save us from people who mean well.
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God People Protection
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
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
You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Inspirational Motivational Yourself
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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Boredom Strong Writing

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