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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?

Vikram Seth

God save us from people who mean well.
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God People Protection
The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Inspirational Mindset Yourself
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
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
You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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Inspirational Mom Yourself
I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Life Myself Understand
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Discipline Obsession Substitute Writing
I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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Myself Reason Religious Subject Tolerance
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
I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don’t like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can’t write.
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Listening Music Myself Poet Writing
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Love Philosophy Rough
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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Boredom Strong Writing
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
You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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Imagination Myself Novel Poetry Writing
I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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Myself Obesession Reputation Work
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

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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