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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.

Vikram Seth

I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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Myself Reason Religious Subject Tolerance
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
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Love Philosophy Rough
Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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Greatness Mesmerize Need
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Discipline Obsession Substitute Writing
God save us from people who mean well.
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God One Liner People Save
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
All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above– Know that you aren’t alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
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Hands Love Night Oneself Right Sleep Tears Yourself
It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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Beyond Excitement Intrigue Live Present Time
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
I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Choice Myself
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
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
And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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Equation Ink 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
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

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