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.
VIKRAM SETHI think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don’t like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can’t write.
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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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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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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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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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Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
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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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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