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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
Everything
Thing
Mind
Inspiration
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I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
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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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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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In life's brief game to be a winner A man must have...oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
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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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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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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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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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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 think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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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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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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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
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