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Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
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Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
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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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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?
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Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
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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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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 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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In general, questions are fine you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.
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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 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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I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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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 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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Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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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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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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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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