You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
VIKRAM SETHFor a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.
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In a painting, you can’t make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist’s stroke.
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I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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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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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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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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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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