I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside. — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“But what should I do?' Varun was saying. 'I'm not good for anything.' 'Write a book! Pull a rickshaw! Live! Don't make… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms,… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
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… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books. — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure. — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“I've always felt that the performance of a raag resembles a novel - or at least the kind of novel I'm attempting… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry.… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted. — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“A Word Of Thanks To these I know a debt past telling: My several muses, harsh and kind; My folks, who stood… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside. — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here. — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“But what should I do?' Varun was saying. 'I'm not good for anything.' 'Write a book! Pull a rickshaw! Live! Don't make excuses,' said… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“In a clear brook With joyful haste The whimsical trout Shot past me like an arrow I play the line of the song, I… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“Romantic retrospect aside, the night spent in the truck is distinctly unpleasant. We are cramped and cold. The much-vaunted heating of the truck is… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth? — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“Well, what do you think? Avanti?" "Avanti," cries everyone, and, after a few quick re-tunings of our instruments, and re-initialisings of our hearts, we… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
