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.
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 sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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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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Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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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 goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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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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Revision 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.
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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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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 don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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