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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.

Vikram Seth

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
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
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
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
I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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Book Interest Myself Reading
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Dreams Inspirational Success Yourself
I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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Myself Reason Religious Subject Tolerance
You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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Imagination Myself Novel Poetry Writing
Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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Myself Reading
To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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Hard Time Heart Broken Life Love Yourself
I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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Eligible Imagination Love Music Myself Professional
You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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Existence Goodness Ideas Talk 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
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
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Discipline Obsession Substitute Writing

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