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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
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Calcutta
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above-- Know that you aren't alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
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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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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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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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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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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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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.
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Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
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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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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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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.
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Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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