There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
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 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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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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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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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 think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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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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Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.
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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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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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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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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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