You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
VIKRAM SETHIn 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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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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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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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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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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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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 don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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