God save us from people who mean well.
VIKRAM SETHQuietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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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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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Revision 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.
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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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Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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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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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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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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Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.
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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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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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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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