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

Vikram Seth

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 don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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Book Myself Thinking
Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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Happiness Kind Person Place Power Think Yourself
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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Artist Paint Progress See Yourself
I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Choice Myself
Those books of mine that are remunerative – I’m not talking about poetry here – take years to write, and I am never sure they’ll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
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Book Oneself Poetry Risk Success Talk Writing
In life’s brief game to be a winner A man must have; oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
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Game Life Love Man Winner
Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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God Life Man Partner
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Love Philosophy Rough
I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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Book Feeling Media Myself News People Space Writing
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
Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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Happiness Person Place Power Thinking Yourself
The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Inspirational Mindset Yourself
I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Life Myself Understand
Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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Book Goodness Ignorance Praise
You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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Imagination Myself Novel Poetry Writing

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