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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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Else

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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
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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 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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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.
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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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Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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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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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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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 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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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
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