I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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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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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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I’m enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
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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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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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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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