Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
VIKRAM SETHPoetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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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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Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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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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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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