I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
VIKRAM SETHYou have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally – your ears will know.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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 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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God save us from people who mean well.
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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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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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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Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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I 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.
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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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