I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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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It’s not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
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I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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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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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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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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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people’s lives, the lives of people you don’t know, and you want to know what’s going to happen to them.
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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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.
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