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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

Vikram Seth

Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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Fate Late Time Yourself
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Discipline Obsession Substitute Writing
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
Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
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Book Help Himself Object Place Proper Seek True
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
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
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 think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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Action Myself Thinking Worth
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Dreams Inspirational Success Yourself
Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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Myself Reading
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 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
And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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Equation Ink Writing
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Love Philosophy Rough
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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