I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
VIKRAM SETHFiction 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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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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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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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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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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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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I’m interested in.
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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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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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I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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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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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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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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