I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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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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.
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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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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 often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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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 want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above– Know that you aren’t alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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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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