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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.

Vikram Seth

I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don’t like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can’t write.
VIKRAM SETH

Listening Music Myself Poet Writing
I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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Eligible Imagination Love Music Myself Professional
Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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Happiness Person Place Power Thinking Yourself
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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Carry Feeling Goodness Man Writing
In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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Myself Nation Temptation
Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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Fate Late Time Yourself
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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Citizenship Important Myself Talk Thinking Writing
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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Elegant Experience Face Poetry Reading Sad Story Thinking
You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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Imagination Myself Novel Poetry Writing
All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above– Know that you aren’t alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
VIKRAM SETH

Hands Love Night Oneself Right Sleep Tears Yourself
To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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Hard Time Heart Broken Life Love Yourself
Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
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Book Help Himself Object Place Proper Seek True
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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Boredom Strong Writing
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.
VIKRAM SETH

Enough Live Myself People Talk Thinking
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Love Philosophy Rough
Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don’t have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
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Character Establishment Existence Happiness Revision Yourself

It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.

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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.

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