I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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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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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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally – your ears will know.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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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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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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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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Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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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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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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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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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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