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Writing Quotes by 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…
- Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a…
- You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
- I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
- 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 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…
- 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…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not… — Paulo Coelho
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov