I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
VIKRAM SETHIt 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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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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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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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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It’s not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
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The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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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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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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I think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don’t like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can’t write.
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My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?
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Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.
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