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Vikram Seth


Indian
June 20, 1952
Novelist
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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.


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


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


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


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


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


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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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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.
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Tags: Work Me Because
Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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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.
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I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku. But I do look at chess and bridge problems in newspapers. I find that relaxing.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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Tags: Never Even Myself
I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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