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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.

Vikram Seth

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
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
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
You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Inspirational Motivational Yourself
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
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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Boredom Strong Writing
The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Inspirational Mindset Yourself
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Love Philosophy Rough
You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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Inspirational Mom 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
There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
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Carry Feeling Goodness Man Writing
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
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
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
Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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Myself Reading
I think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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Business Inspirational Myself Possible Talent Thinking Tree

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