I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
VIKRAM SETHI want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
VIKRAM SETHI 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.
VIKRAM SETHSo many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
VIKRAM SETHIt 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.
VIKRAM SETHDon’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
VIKRAM SETHI think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
VIKRAM SETHIs it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
VIKRAM SETHI don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
VIKRAM SETHI am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
VIKRAM SETHI often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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 SETHI 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 need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
VIKRAM SETHThink of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
VIKRAM SETHYou know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
VIKRAM SETHFor a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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