I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
VIKRAM SETHIn spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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 think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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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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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 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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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I’m interested in.
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Fiction 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.
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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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I 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.
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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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