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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Calcutta
Takes
Else
Everything
Thing
Mind
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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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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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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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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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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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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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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 think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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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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In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.
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Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
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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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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.
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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings they pick and choose me.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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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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I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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