Vikram Seth Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: June 20, 1952

Topics

LifePoetryHappyWritingMy Life

For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.

Jimmy Connors

LifeFamilyMy LifeImportantYears

If we can believe in our own value, then we won't try to denigrate and diss and just roast women all the time.

Jidenna

WomenTimeValueBelieveTryOwn

The great thing about doing a series about the Broadway community is that the possibilities are endless.

Megan Hilty

CommunityGreatDoingPossibilities

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Andy Warhol

ThoughtNameSayMy OwnAlwaysOwn

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you've got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

Stephen Covey

WorkEducationResponsibilityYou

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

Stanley Crouch

SocietyViolenceKindBecomePoint

When I went to Germany, all I knew were German swear words.

Son Heung-min

WordsGermanyKnewSwearWere

Looking back, fire images have been constant in my poetry. As a boy, it was my job to light the fire each morning, and I remember the celebratory bonfires at the end of the war. It was from staring into fire that I began my first poetry.

Tony Harrison

MorningLightFireJobWarPoetry

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

Tom Perrotta

HonestyEyesTogetherWritingWorld

People identify with being heartbroken. We've all been heartbroken, haven't we? I've been dumped, and it feels horrible.

Rob James-Collier

PeopleBeingHorribleBeenIdentify

I was the first wrestler ever in the history of wrestling to star in a major motion studio picture that became #1 box office of the weekend, and that gave the itch to I don't know how many wrestlers.

Roddy Piper

HistoryPictureWeekendKnowOffice

I knew that we would have a movie about us one day.

Rozonda Thomas

DayOne DayUsWouldKnewMovie

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