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.
VIKRAM SETHMusic, 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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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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 am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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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.
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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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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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My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?
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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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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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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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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