Vikram Seth Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.”
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“But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.”
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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 just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.”
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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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“I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.”
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“I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.”
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“Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.”
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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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“Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.”
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“I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.”
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“I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.”
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“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.”
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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 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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“I 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.”
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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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“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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“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.”
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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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“I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.”
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“I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.”
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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 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 have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.”
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“There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.”
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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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“My 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 Seth
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