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I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.

Vikram Seth

I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Choice Myself
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
You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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Existence Goodness Ideas Talk Yourself
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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Listening Music Myself Poet Writing
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Dreams Inspirational Success Yourself
God save us from people who mean well.
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God People Protection
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
You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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Imagination Myself Novel Poetry Writing
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
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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Boredom Strong Writing
I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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Myself Reason Religious Subject Tolerance
I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
VIKRAM SETH

Book Myself Thinking
I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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Book Feeling Media Myself News People Space 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
In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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Myself Nation Temptation

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