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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
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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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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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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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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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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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I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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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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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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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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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
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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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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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