I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
VIKRAM SETHSo many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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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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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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 am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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It’s not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
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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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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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