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.
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 it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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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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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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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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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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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 sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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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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