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.
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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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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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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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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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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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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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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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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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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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 need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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