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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
Novelist
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Calcutta
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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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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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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
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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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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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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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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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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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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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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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