For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
VIKRAM SETHI 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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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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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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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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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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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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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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I don’t think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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