So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
VIKRAM SETHAnd 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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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 want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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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.
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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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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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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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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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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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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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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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