I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above– Know that you aren’t alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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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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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 sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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.
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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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The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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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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Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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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 have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I’m enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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