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.
VIKRAM SETHI 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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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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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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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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
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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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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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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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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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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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