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?
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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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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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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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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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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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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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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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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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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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 need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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