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.
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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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 am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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In life’s brief game to be a winner A man must have; oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
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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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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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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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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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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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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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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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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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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