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Vikram Seth Quotes

I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me Picture Quote #1

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only Picture Quote #1

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else Picture Quote #1

Good music is good music, but it has to be good Picture Quote #1

God save us from people who mean well Picture Quote #1

I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside Picture Quote #1

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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work Picture Quote #1

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature Picture Quote #1

I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well Picture Quote #1

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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure Picture Quote #1

Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do Picture Quote #1

In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn’t easy either, and for someone who’s quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out Picture Quote #1

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go Picture Quote #1

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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias Picture Quote #1

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself Picture Quote #1

And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are to be found. The strange journeys we undertake on our earthly pilgrimage, the joy and suffering we taste or confer, the chance events that leave us together or apart, what a complex trace they leave: so personal as to be almost incommunicable, so fugitive as to be almost irrecoverable Picture Quote #1

To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away Picture Quote #1

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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me (Vikram Seth Quotes) You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only (Vikram Seth Quotes) The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else (Vikram Seth Quotes) Good music is good music, but it has to be good (Vikram Seth Quotes) God save us from people who mean well (Vikram Seth Quotes) I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own (Vikram Seth Quotes) 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 (Vikram Seth Quotes) 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 Seth Quotes) 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 (Vikram Seth Quotes) 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 (Vikram Seth Quotes) 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 Seth Quotes) I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside (Vikram Seth Quotes) I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work (Vikram Seth Quotes) I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books (Vikram Seth Quotes) 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 (Vikram Seth Quotes) 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 Seth Quotes) I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature (Vikram Seth Quotes) I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well (Vikram Seth Quotes) I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure (Vikram Seth Quotes) Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do (Vikram Seth Quotes) In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn’t easy either, and for someone who’s quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage (Vikram Seth Quotes) 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 (Vikram Seth Quotes) Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out (Vikram Seth Quotes) What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go (Vikram Seth Quotes) I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias (Vikram Seth Quotes) Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself (Vikram Seth Quotes) And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink (Vikram Seth Quotes) 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 Seth Quotes) Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are to be found. The strange journeys we undertake on our earthly pilgrimage, the joy and suffering we taste or confer, the chance events that leave us together or apart, what a complex trace they leave: so personal as to be almost incommunicable, so fugitive as to be almost irrecoverable (Vikram Seth Quotes) To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away (Vikram Seth Quotes)

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