Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
VIKRAM SETHI often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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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 need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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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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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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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 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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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.
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There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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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 often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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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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It’s not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
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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 have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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