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.
VIKRAM SETHI sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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 want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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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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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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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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