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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.

Vikram Seth

In life’s brief game to be a winner A man must have; oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
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Game Life Love Man Winner
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 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
I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Choice Myself
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
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 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
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
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Love Philosophy Rough
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
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
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 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
What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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Difference Let Go Life Love Myself Relationship
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
Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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Fate Late Time Yourself

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.

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