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

And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink — 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 read stuff on any of them. — Vikram Seth

If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before. — Vikram Seth

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 billion light-years beyond? — Vikram Seth

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

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything. — Vikram Seth

I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in. — Vikram Seth

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only. — Vikram Seth

I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well. — Vikram Seth

You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother. — Vikram Seth

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline. — Vikram Seth

Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted. — Vikram Seth

I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure. — Vikram Seth

God save us from people who mean well. — Vikram Seth

I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature. — Vikram Seth

Man without life companion is either god or beast. — Vikram Seth

To steel yourself against mangoes showed a degree of iciness that was almost inhuman. — Vikram Seth

Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized. — Vikram Seth

I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work. — 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

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English. — Vikram Seth

To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away, — Vikram Seth

Put your backbone where your wishbone is. — Vikram Seth

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself. — Vikram Seth

ghazal that he had heard Saeeda Bai sing, but, oddly, — Vikram Seth

My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation. — Vikram Seth

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated. — Vikram Seth

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books. — Vikram Seth

I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own. — Vikram Seth

Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate. — Vikram Seth

I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write. — Vikram Seth

I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent. — Vikram Seth

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else. — Vikram Seth

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias. — Vikram Seth

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy. — Vikram Seth

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything. — Vikram Seth

In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian. — Vikram Seth

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 Peace.' — Vikram Seth

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

You can talk good ideas out of existence. — Vikram Seth

He had come to a decision about the next step in his life. This decision was irrevocable unless he changed his mind. — Vikram Seth

Each point in the universe must make up its own mind on the question of acknowledgement before acknowledgement can be considered universal. — Vikram Seth

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

You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it. — Vikram Seth

I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance. — Vikram Seth

In the painting I saw, in the books I read, I recalled her, for she her had in many ways been the making of me. — Vikram Seth

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

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me. — Vikram Seth

Perhaps it is true that for all the evidence of the mirror, one pictures oneself in some deep niche of the mind as forever 18. — Vikram Seth

Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet. — Vikram Seth

Good music is good music, but it has to be good. — 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, want to live and let live. — Vikram Seth

Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored — Vikram Seth

The ifs and buts of history ... form an insubstantial if intoxicating diet. — Vikram Seth