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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.

Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
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Calcutta
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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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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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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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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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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above-- Know that you aren't alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
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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 often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than 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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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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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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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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