Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
Vikram Seth
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Calcutta
Imagine
Writing
Poetry
Novel
More quotes by Vikram Seth
Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
Vikram Seth
Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
Vikram Seth
I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
Vikram Seth
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.
Vikram Seth
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
In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
Vikram Seth
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.
Vikram Seth
What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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.
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
Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
Vikram Seth
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.
Vikram Seth
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?
Vikram Seth
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.
Vikram Seth
You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
Vikram Seth
I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
Vikram Seth
The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
Vikram Seth
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.
Vikram Seth
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
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
Vikram Seth