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

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
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Love Philosophy Rough
You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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Imagination Myself Novel Poetry Writing
Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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God Life Man Partner
I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Choice Myself
God save us from people who mean well.
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God People Protection
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
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
Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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Myself Reading
Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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Greatness Mesmerize Need
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people’s lives, the lives of people you don’t know, and you want to know what’s going to happen to them.
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Fiction Gossip Live People Yourself
You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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Existence Goodness Ideas Talk Yourself
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Dreams Inspirational Success Yourself
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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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Difference Let Go Life Love Myself Relationship
I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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