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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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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.
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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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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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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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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than 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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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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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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 sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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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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And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.
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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 often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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