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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

Vikram Seth

I think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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Business Inspirational Myself Possible Talent Thinking Tree
Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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Elegant Experience Face Poetry Reading Sad Story Thinking
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
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
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
God save us from people who mean well.
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God People Protection
The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Inspirational Mindset Yourself
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
Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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God Life Man Partner
There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
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Carry Feeling Goodness Man Writing
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
Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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Myself Reading
I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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Future Material Nostalgia Time World
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
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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Boredom Strong 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

I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

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