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I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.

Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
Novelist
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Calcutta
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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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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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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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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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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 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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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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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 think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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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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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.
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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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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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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