Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
VIKRAM SETH
I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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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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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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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 want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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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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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 don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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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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In life’s brief game to be a winner A man must have; oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
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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 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.
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