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

Vikram Seth

Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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Book Goodness Ignorance Praise
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
I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Choice Myself
Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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Myself Reading
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Discipline Obsession Substitute 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 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
Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.
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Burn Calm Earth Flow Hate Human Knowledge Quiet Race River
God save us from people who mean well.
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God People Protection
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
I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I’m enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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Distract Economics Feeling Happiness Life Myself Novel Writing
You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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Imagination Myself Novel Poetry Writing
God save us from people who mean well.
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God One Liner People Save
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
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Dreams Inspirational Success Yourself
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

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