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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
Novelist
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Calcutta
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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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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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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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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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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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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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
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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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Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
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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 think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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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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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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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 don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
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