Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth CBEis an Indian novelist and poet. He has written several novels and poetry books. He has received several awards including Padma Shri, Sahitya Akademi Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award. Seth's collections of poetry such as Mappings and Beastly Tales are notable contributions to the Indian English language poetry canon...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth20 June 1952
CountryIndia
book thinking should
I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
self discipline obsession
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
aspect generally government hands power puts worse
Of course, a law that is selectively used is in one aspect even worse than a law that is generally used because it puts a lot of power in individuals' hands and makes government a rule, not of laws, but of people.
again fact far life people point sort stages vehicle
The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not necessarily to find your voice, which grinds out the same sort of thing again and again, but to find a vehicle for people who are far more important than the author: the characters.
gossip people fiction
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.
writing boredom stronger
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
kind force checks
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.
heart odds evil
It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
past thinking important
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.
book writing filling-up
I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
writing imagine novel
You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
ideas existence good-ideas
You can talk good ideas out of existence.
needs propensity mesmerized
Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
reading stuff interest
I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.