I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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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 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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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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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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Those books of mine that are remunerative – I’m not talking about poetry here – take years to write, and I am never sure they’ll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
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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 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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