I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I’m quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
VIKRAM SETHI need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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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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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 have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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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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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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Those 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.
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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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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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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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