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.
VIKRAM SETHGod save us from people who mean well.
VIKRAM SETHI often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
VIKRAM SETHThe thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
VIKRAM SETHI have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
VIKRAM SETHI think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
VIKRAM SETHGod save us from people who mean well.
VIKRAM SETHMy eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?
VIKRAM SETHI don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
VIKRAM SETHYou get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
VIKRAM SETHIt 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.
VIKRAM SETHSo many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
VIKRAM SETHI simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I’m interested in.
VIKRAM SETHI am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
VIKRAM SETHPut your backbone where your wishbone is.
VIKRAM SETHIn spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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