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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

Vikram Seth

You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally – your ears will know.
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Learning Natural Poetry Way Yourself
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
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
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
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
In a painting, you can’t make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist’s stroke.
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Artist Paint Progress See Yourself
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 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 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
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Discipline Obsession Substitute Writing
Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
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Book Help Himself Object Place Proper Seek True
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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Beyond Couple End Eyes Light Wake Up
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Love Philosophy Rough
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
I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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Book Interest Myself Reading

I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

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