It’s not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
VIKRAM SETHGod save us from people who mean well.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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 need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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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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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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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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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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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’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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