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

Vikram Seth

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
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 want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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Book Interest Myself Reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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Myself Reading
Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.
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Burn Calm Earth Flow Hate Human Knowledge Quiet Race River
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Discipline Obsession Substitute 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
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
Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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Happiness Person Place Power Thinking Yourself
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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Boredom Strong Writing

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

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