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.
VIKRAM SETHI 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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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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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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 time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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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 don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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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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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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I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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