I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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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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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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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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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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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 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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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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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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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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