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 SETHIn 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 SETHRevision 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.
VIKRAM SETHDear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
VIKRAM SETHYou get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
VIKRAM SETHDon’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
VIKRAM SETHThose 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.
VIKRAM SETHGod save us from people who mean well.
VIKRAM SETHFiction 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 SETHYou know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
VIKRAM SETHI think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
VIKRAM SETHI often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
VIKRAM SETHAll 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 SETHYou can talk good ideas out of existence.
VIKRAM SETHI 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.
VIKRAM SETHFor a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
VIKRAM SETHI want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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