So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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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?
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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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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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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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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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 don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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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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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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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 need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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