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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
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Calcutta
Feels
Indian
Good
Plenty
Burden
English
Writers
None
Poster
Boys
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Carrying

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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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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 want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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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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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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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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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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 don't pick and choose subjects or settings they pick and choose me.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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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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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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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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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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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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