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

Vikram Seth

Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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Fate Late Time Yourself
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
I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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Lazy Myself Natural Need Obsession Order
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
You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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Inspirational Mom Yourself
I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Choice Myself
I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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Myself Reason Religious Subject Tolerance
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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Learning Natural Poetry Way Yourself
God save us from people who mean well.
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God People Protection
Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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Book Goodness Ignorance Praise
And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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Equation Ink Writing
You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Inspirational Motivational Yourself
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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Evil Fear God Heart Need Start
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
God save us from people who mean well.
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God One Liner People Save
I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Life Myself Understand

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