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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
Vikram Seth
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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
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Calcutta
Poetry
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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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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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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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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
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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 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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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
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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 think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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 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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God save us from people who mean well.
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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.
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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.
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I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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