Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
VIKRAM SETHMy 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?
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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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 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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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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I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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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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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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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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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