I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
VIKRAM SETHI simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I’m interested in.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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You 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.
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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 often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?
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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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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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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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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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