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.
VIKRAM SETHSo many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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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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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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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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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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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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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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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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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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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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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people’s lives, the lives of people you don’t know, and you want to know what’s going to happen to them.
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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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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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