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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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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?
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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 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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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 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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Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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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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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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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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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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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
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