Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
VIKRAM SETHI 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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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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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The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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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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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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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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In life’s brief game to be a winner A man must have; oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
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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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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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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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All 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.
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