You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
VIKRAM SETHYou can talk good ideas out of existence.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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 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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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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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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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 don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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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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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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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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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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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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