I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
VIKRAM SETHPoetry, 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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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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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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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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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Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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It 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.
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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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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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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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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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