Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
VIKRAM SETHI don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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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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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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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 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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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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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 sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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Those books of mine that are remunerative – I’m not talking about poetry here – take years to write, and I am never sure they’ll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
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