Quotes by Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth

And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink

Green

Ink

Red

And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.

Book

Reading

Rooms

But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they’re bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they’re good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.

Book

Hate

Long

Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.

Dear

Might

Silly

Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.

Admirer

Book

Strive

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.

Important

Past

Thinking

God save us from people who mean well.

Humanity

Mean

People

I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.

Causes

Intolerance

Religious

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens – not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens – should talk about things that matter to them.

Important

Ordinary

Thinking

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

Book

Filling Up

Writing

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Able

Admirer

Answering Questions

Asking Questions

Backbone

Blessed

Book

Bother

Boys

Burden

Causes

Christianity

Couple

Dear

Differences

Evil

Existence

Eye

Faith

Filling Up

Games

Good Ideas

Green

Grieving

Hate

Heart

Humanity

Ideas

Imagine

Important

Indian

Ink

Inspiration

Interest

Intolerance

Language

Let Me Go

Light

Listening To Music

Long

Love Is

Lows

Mean

Men

Might

Mind

Mother

Not Sure

Novel

Obscure

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Quotes by Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth

And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink

And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.

Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.

Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.

God save us from people who mean well.

I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens – not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens – should talk about things that matter to them.

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

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