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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
Mind
Inspiration
Takes
Else
Everything
Thing

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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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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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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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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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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.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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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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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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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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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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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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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I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
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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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
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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 don't pick and choose subjects or settings they pick and choose me.
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