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I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.

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 have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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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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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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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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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings they pick and choose me.
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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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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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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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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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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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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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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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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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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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