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Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Calcutta
Suggestions
Wherever
Inspiration
Mother
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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
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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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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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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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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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In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.
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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 rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
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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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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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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 have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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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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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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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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There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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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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