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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
Librettist
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Calcutta
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More quotes by Vikram Seth
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.
Vikram Seth
I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
Vikram Seth
Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
Vikram Seth
What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
Vikram Seth
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
Vikram Seth
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
Vikram Seth
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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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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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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Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
Vikram Seth
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
Vikram Seth
I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
Vikram Seth
God save us from people who mean well.
Vikram Seth
In life's brief game to be a winner A man must have...oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
Vikram Seth
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.
Vikram Seth
You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
Vikram Seth
