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Vikram Seth Quotes

Indian - Novelist | June 20, 1952 -

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.

Work Me Kind Drift Check Seem

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

Sad Experience Poetry Story Think

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.

Life Good Past Value Poetry Think

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

Mind Inspiration Everything Off Your

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

Me Choose Pick Settings Subjects

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

Mother You Inspiration Wherever Get

You can talk good ideas out of existence.

Good Ideas You Talk Existence Out

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.

I Am Poetry Writing Talking Never

The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing.

Beautiful Writing View Problem You

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.

Live Time Moment Think Present Once

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.

Writing Pressure You Too Much Want

I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.

Challenge Me Book View Point Of View

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