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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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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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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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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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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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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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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 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 spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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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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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 am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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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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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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