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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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Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
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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 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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It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
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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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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 think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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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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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
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In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.
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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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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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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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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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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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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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