God save us from people who mean well.
VIKRAM SETHI 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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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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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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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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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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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I think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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