I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
VIKRAM SETHAll you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above– Know that you aren’t alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
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 think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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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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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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 think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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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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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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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.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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