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God save us from people who mean well.

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 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 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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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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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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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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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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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings they pick and choose me.
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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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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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Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
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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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I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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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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