I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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Those books of mine that are remunerative – I’m not talking about poetry here – take years to write, and I am never sure they’ll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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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 if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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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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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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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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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 certainly think its very important that writers as citizens – not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens – should talk about things that matter to them.
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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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