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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.

Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
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Calcutta
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English
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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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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 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 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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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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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 need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
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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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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 anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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