To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
VIKRAM SETHI’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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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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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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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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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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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 often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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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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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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