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?
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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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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Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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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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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 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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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people’s lives, the lives of people you don’t know, and you want to know what’s going to happen to them.
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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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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I think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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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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