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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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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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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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 SETHAnd 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 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.
VIKRAM SETHI 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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
VIKRAM SETHTo not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
VIKRAM SETHI have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don’t have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
VIKRAM SETHRevision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don’t have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
VIKRAM SETHI’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
VIKRAM SETHThink of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
VIKRAM SETHThe past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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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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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.
VIKRAM SETHI 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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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
VIKRAM SETHI don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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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.
VIKRAM SETHIn 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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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
VIKRAM SETHI sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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