Vikram Seth Quotes
Top 56 wise famous quotes and sayings by Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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?
It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
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.
In life's brief game to be a winner
A man must have ... oh yes, above
All else, of course, someone to love.
A man must have ... oh yes, above
All else, of course, someone to love.
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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.
I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
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.'
He had come to a decision about the next step in his life. This decision was irrevocable unless he changed his mind.
Each point in the universe must make up its own mind on the question of acknowledgement before acknowledgement can be considered universal.
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.
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.
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.