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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
Thinking
Worth
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
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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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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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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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In life's brief game to be a winner A man must have...oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
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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 think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
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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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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 need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.
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