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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Calcutta
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Wishbone
Wishbones
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Christianity

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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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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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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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Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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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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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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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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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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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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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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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 it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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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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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
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