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 SETHRevision 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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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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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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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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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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 often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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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 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 that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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