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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Calcutta
Music
Love
Professionally
Competent
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Imagination

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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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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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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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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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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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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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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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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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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.
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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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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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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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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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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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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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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