Vikram Seth Quotes

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• Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
• Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
• Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.
• And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
• 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 eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of…
• Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are…
• To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away,
• I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of…
• Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near…
• Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll…
• 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…
• All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves…
• 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…
• You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
• 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.…
• Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want…
• 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,…
• Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to…
• Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.

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