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 don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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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.
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I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I’m quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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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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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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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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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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It’s not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
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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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