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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Calcutta
Music
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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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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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?
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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 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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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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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.
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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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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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I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
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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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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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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.
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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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