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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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Feel
Carrying

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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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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 don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
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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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And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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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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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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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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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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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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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings they pick and choose me.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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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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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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