Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
VIKRAM SETHBoredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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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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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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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 think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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I 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.
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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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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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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?
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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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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