Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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 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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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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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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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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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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All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above– Know that you aren’t alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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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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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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Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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