Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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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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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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 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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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.
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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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I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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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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Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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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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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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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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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.
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