You can talk good ideas out of existence.
VIKRAM SETHGood books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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 need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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 spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I’m enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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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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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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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally – your ears will know.
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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 am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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