I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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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 don’t think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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I think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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