I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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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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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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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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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In a painting, you can’t make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist’s stroke.
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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 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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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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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens – not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens – should talk about things that matter to them.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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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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God save us from people who mean 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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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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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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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 goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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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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