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.
VIKRAM SETH
To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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In a painting, you can’t make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist’s stroke.
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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’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally – your ears will know.
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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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