God save us from people who mean well.
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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The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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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 think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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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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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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I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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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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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I’m quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
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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 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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