Vikram Seth Quotes - Page 3

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

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  Mother, Inspiration, Suggestions

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• 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?

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  Couple, Eye, Light

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

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• 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.

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  Writing, Years, Found

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• 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.

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  Race, Rivers, Long

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

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• 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.

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  Asking Questions, Shy, Answering Questions

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

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  Book, Want, Obscure

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• 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.

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  Writing, Thinking, Trivia

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• Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.

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  Book, Writing, Successful

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Giving Up, Writing

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• All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves with it, and people kneel down in a wave to pray to God. Five waves each day - one for each namaaz - ripple across the globe from longitude to longitude. The component elements change direction, like iron filings near a magnet - towards the house of God in Mecca.

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  Prayer, Moving, Iron

  Vikram Seth (1993). “A Suitable Boy”, p.117, Penguin Books India

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

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  Writing, Imagine, Novel

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