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You can talk good ideas out of existence.

Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Calcutta
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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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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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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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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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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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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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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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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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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 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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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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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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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings they pick and choose me.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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