You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
VIKRAM SETHRevision 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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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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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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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In a painting, you can’t make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist’s stroke.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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In life’s brief game to be a winner A man must have; oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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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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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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I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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I don’t think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
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