I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
VIKRAM SETHI often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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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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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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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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I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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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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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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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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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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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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