In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
VIKRAM SETHI 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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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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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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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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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Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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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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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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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 have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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