Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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 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’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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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 don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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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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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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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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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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