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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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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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And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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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 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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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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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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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 don't pick and choose subjects or settings they pick and choose me.
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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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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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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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