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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
Vikram Seth
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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
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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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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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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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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 spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
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And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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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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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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All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above-- Know that you aren't alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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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 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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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