I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
VIKRAM SETHI often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
VIKRAM SETHDon’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
VIKRAM SETHI rarely listen to music while writing. If I don’t like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can’t write.
VIKRAM SETHQuietly 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.
VIKRAM SETHI just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
VIKRAM SETHYou will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
VIKRAM SETHI 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.
VIKRAM SETHRevision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don’t have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
VIKRAM SETHIt’s not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
VIKRAM SETHIs it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
VIKRAM SETHYou know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
VIKRAM SETHGod save us from people who mean well.
VIKRAM SETHPut your backbone where your wishbone is.
VIKRAM SETHI think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
VIKRAM SETHI need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
VIKRAM SETHFor a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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