You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
VIKRAM SETHI 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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I 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.
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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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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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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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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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In a painting, you can’t make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist’s stroke.
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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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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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