Vikram Seth Quotes

The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!

Vikram Seth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MindYouKnowNeverPureIceberg

When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.

John Perkins

PowerCultureMoneyDayLieWin

In our house, the name for all athletic shoes - any that weren't dress or 'church' shoes - was 'tennis shoes,' or 'tennies.'

Steve Rushin

ShoesDressNameChurchHouseOur

I think I had only been working nine months when I got 'Star Trek,' and it was huge. It was very overwhelming. So that opened my eyes a bit at an early age, kind of how not be frightened when walking into a responsibility of something like that.

Tom Hardy

AgeEyesResponsibilityThinkEarly

I'm knackered. I'm knackered all the time. My stupid, tiny children wake me up at 5:48 A.M. every single morning.

Robert Webb

MorningChildrenTimeMeStupidUp

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Roy Blount, Jr.

ArtCreativityGardeningMeWriting

Founders always say, 'I'm going to 'make my thing go viral' - that doesn't mean just adding a share button.

Michael Seibel

GoSayMeanAlwaysShareGoing

I never had a spirit-breaking, soul-destroying religion drummed into me.

Michael Leunig

ReligionMeNeverHad

I give opinions, not advice.

Lou Holtz

AdviceOpinionsGive

It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it.

Jules Verne

GoodReasonTaken For GrantedMay

I chose to stay close with my family and my parents and my brother.

Jordan Rodgers

FamilyBrotherParentsStayClose

It's just an unhealthy way to approach something, trying to outdo your last thing. You've gotta trust evolution, you've gotta trust that the bar is moving, that you don't need to force the bar. It'll just happen.

Johnny Knoxville

TrustMovingTryingYouEvolution

The 5G world will be a collaborative ecosystem, and the role of what each of us will do in that remains to be thought through.

Borje Ekholm

WorldThoughtWillThroughUsRole

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