Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
VIKRAM SETHI 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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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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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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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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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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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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above– Know that you aren’t alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
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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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Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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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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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally – your ears will know.
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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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