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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Calcutta
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Obsessed
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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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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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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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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 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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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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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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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
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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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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
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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 want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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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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