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Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.

Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Calcutta
Till
Fate
Late
Things

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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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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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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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And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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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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In general, questions are fine you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.
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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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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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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 don't pick and choose subjects or settings they pick and choose me.
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And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.
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In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.
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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'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
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I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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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 don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
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