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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.

Vikram Seth

I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Choice Myself
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Dreams Inspirational Success Yourself
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
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
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
Those books of mine that are remunerative – I’m not talking about poetry here – take years to write, and I am never sure they’ll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
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Book Oneself Poetry Risk Success Talk Writing
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
God save us from people who mean well.
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God One Liner People Save
In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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Myself Nation Temptation
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
God save us from people who mean well.
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God People Protection
Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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God Life Man Partner
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
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Discipline Obsession Substitute Writing
You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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Inspirational Mom Yourself
Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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Myself Reading

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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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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