Vikram Seth Quotes

I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku. But I do look at chess and bridge problems in newspapers. I find that relaxing.

Vikram Seth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveMathematicsBridgeProblems

It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host.

Jim Bakker

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I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.

Jodi Picoult

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Much of what's called 'public' is increasingly a private good paid for by users - ever-higher tolls on public highways and public bridges, higher tuitions at so-called public universities, higher admission fees at public parks and public museums.

Robert Reich

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Games are another place to find work, not only the voice stuff but in the motion capture stuff. It's exciting work.

Michael Cudlitz

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I played American Legion ball starting when I was 14. But I didn't catch until I was 17. I was 75-3 as a high school pitcher, but it was like everybody knew that I was supposed to be a catcher. When the scouts would come around, and I was pitching, they'd make me take infield practice so the scouts could watch me throw.

Johnny Bench

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I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all preceded the humanitarian reforms of the Enlightenment.

Steven Pinker

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I'm a postmodern commentator, and so, in a cheeky parallel to James Joyce or James Kelman, I get to places, verbally, that are a little unusual - when I talk about Jocky Wilson and end up sounding like a Jackson Pollock of the commentary box.

Sid Waddell

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Before Bitcoin, I was just waiting around for the Singularity.

Roger Ver

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How come trying to explode myths about Texas always winds up reinforcing them?

Molly Ivins

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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

Joseph Conrad

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I was nearly 40 when I published my first book. I was a slow starter - or rather, I was slow to gather my work together, though I had published translations, mainly of the Italian poet Montale, by then.

Jonathan Galassi

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Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.

Dirk Kempthorne

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