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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
Poet
Writer
Calcutta
Sells
Interested
Books
Read
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Obscure
Sell

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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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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 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 think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
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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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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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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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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
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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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