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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.
Vikram Seth
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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
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Calcutta
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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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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 don't pick and choose subjects or settings they pick and choose me.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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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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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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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 if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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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 have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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