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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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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I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
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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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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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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'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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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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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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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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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings they pick and choose me.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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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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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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