You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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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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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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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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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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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 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 think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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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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