Vikram Seth

Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary…

— Vikram Seth

I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.

— Vikram Seth

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

“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

“In a clear brook With joyful haste The whimsical trout Shot past me like an arrow I play the line of the…

— Vikram Seth

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.

— Vikram Seth

I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically,…

— Vikram Seth

The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want…

— Vikram Seth

“Romantic retrospect aside, the night spent in the truck is distinctly unpleasant. We are cramped and cold. The much-vaunted heating of the…

— Vikram Seth

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

— Vikram Seth

“Well, what do you think? Avanti?" "Avanti," cries everyone, and, after a few quick re-tunings of our instruments, and re-initialisings of our…

— Vikram Seth

Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star,…

— Vikram Seth

“Perhaps it is true that for all the evidence of the mirror, one pictures oneself in some deep niche of the mind…

— Vikram Seth

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

— Vikram Seth

“The past is the past, and he can't make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.”

— Vikram Seth

“I triumph and rejoice that my action should have obtained your approval; nor am I disturbed when I hear it said that…

— Vikram Seth

“You can't blame her,' said Amit. 'After a life so full of tragedy anyone would become hard.' 'What tragedy?' asked Mrs. Chatterji.…

— Vikram Seth

I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms,…

— Vikram Seth

You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear.…

— Vikram Seth

In life's brief game to be a winner A man must have...oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.

— Vikram Seth

“I'm not a mouse or a tigress, she thought, I'm a hedgehog.”

— Vikram Seth

I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to…

— Vikram Seth

And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink

— Vikram Seth

Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over…

— Vikram Seth

“Man without life companion is either god or beast.”

— Vikram Seth