In life’s brief game to be a winner A man must have; oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
VIKRAM SETHFiction 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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Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.
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I think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don’t have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?
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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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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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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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