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You Quotes by Vikram Seth
- 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…
- 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…
- I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
- You can talk good ideas out of existence.
- You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
- 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…
- 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…
- The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not…
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- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento