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Vikram Seth Quotes - Page 3

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

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

Vikram Seth
Silly, Might, Dear

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
Couple, Eye, Light
Vikram Seth (1999). “An Equal Music”, p.86, Penguin Books India

I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.

Vikram Seth
Writing, Years, Found

Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.

Vikram Seth
Race, Rivers, Long
Vikram Seth (1993). “A Suitable Boy”, p.1070, Penguin Books India

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

Vikram Seth
Book, Want, Obscure

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
Reading, Stuff, Interest

It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.

Vikram Seth
Writing, Thinking, Trivia

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 to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.

Vikram Seth
Asking Questions, Shy, Answering Questions

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

Vikram Seth
Mother, Inspiration, Suggestions

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 bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

Vikram Seth
Jobs, Giving Up, Writing

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

Vikram Seth
Writing, Imagine, Novel

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