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.
VIKRAM SETHIn life’s brief game to be a winner A man must have; oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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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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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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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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In life’s brief game to be a winner A man must have; oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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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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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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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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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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