The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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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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All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above– Know that you aren’t alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
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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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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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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 have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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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 pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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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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I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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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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It’s not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
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