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.
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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And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.
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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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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 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 think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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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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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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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 don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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