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

Vikram Seth

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Love Philosophy Rough
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
I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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Future Material Nostalgia Time World
I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I’m enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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Distract Economics Feeling Happiness Life Myself Novel Writing
You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Inspirational Motivational Yourself
God save us from people who mean well.
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God One Liner People Save
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Discipline Obsession Substitute Writing
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
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
Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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Myself Reading
You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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Imagination Myself Novel Poetry Writing
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
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 don’t think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
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Enough Live Myself People Talk Thinking
I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I’m quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
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Happiness Interest Myself Quite Subject

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

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