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Vikram Seth

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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Boredom Strong Writing
I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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Book Interest Myself Reading
God save us from people who mean well.
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God One Liner People Save
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
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
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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Enough Live Myself People Talk 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
Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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Book Goodness Ignorance Praise
You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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Inspirational Mom Yourself
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
You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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Imagination Myself Novel Poetry Writing
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 sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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Future Material Nostalgia Time World
You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Inspirational Motivational Yourself
You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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Existence Goodness Ideas Talk Yourself
The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Inspirational Mindset Yourself

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