The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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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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 be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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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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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 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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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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In a painting, you can’t make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist’s stroke.
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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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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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