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.
VIKRAM SETHFiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people’s lives, the lives of people you don’t know, and you want to know what’s going to happen to them.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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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 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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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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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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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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Revision 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.
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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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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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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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