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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
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Calcutta
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It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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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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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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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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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 think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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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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Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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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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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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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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In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.
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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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