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.
VIKRAM SETHIs it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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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’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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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 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 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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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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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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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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