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Vikram Seth

It’s not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
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Evil Fear God Heart Need Start
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 need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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Lazy Myself Natural Need Obsession Order
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
You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Inspirational Motivational Yourself
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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English Language Novel Writing
I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Choice Myself
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
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 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
I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Life Myself Understand
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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Boredom Strong Writing
You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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Imagination Myself Novel Poetry 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
And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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Equation Ink Writing

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