Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
VIKRAM SETHI have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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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.
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Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
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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 just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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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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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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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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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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 simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I’m interested in.
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The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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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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I think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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