I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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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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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It’s not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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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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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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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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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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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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