I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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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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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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The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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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’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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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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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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I don’t think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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