“The past is the past, and he can't make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.” — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened, and there… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I'm actually a very lazy person. Most of the time, I'm happy to sit around and stare. Or watch bad TV soaps.… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“And sometimes both of them forgot that what they were undergoing amid the clink of cutlery and crockery was a mutual interview… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“I walk across the park to her flat. It is over-heated and there is a great deal of pink. This used not… — 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
