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Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth
Indian Novelist
Born: Jun 20, 1952
Me Music People Think Writing You
Related authors: Charles Dickens Ernest Hemingway Gustave Flaubert James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Paulo Coelho Walter Scott
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them. Vikram Seth
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by. Vikram Seth
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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
Language Other Prominence Indian Written Because Been Than Get Quite Unfairly Should English Many Novels
Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby. Vikram Seth
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In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke. Vikram Seth
You Before Painting Progression Eye Out Stroke See Make Left Artist Whether Chinese Painted Right
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
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Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do. Vikram Seth
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I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them. Vikram Seth
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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. Vikram Seth
Writing Not Talking Books Mine Those About Risk More Poetry Write Take Never Talking Sure Am Years Than Senses Successful Here
You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only. Vikram Seth
You Writing Only Poetry Know Novel Imagine
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