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I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.

Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Calcutta
Worth
Wells
Well
Something
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings they pick and choose me.
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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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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.
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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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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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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 get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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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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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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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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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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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
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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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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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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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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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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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