I think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
VIKRAM SETHI don’t think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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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 don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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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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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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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 think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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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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