Vikram Seth Quotes

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry ...

How rarely these few years, as work keeps up aloof,Or fares, or one thing or another,How we had days...

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

You can't blame her,' said Amit. 'After a life so full of tragedy anyone would become hard.''What tr...

There was just enough room for the tonga to get through among the bullock-carts, rickshaws, cycles a...

There was a few seconds' pause. Then Amit said: I meant, what were you thinking just now.When? said ...

Wherever his faltering mind,unsteadily wanders,he should restrain itand bring it under self-controlK...

She had dispersed. She was the garden at Prem Nivas (soon to be entered into the annual Flower Show)...

I've always felt that the performance of a raag resembles a novel - or at least the kind of novel I'...

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, ask...

But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the e...

All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, th...

In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and co...

You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the...

God save us from people who mean well.

Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or ...

And sometimes both of them forgot that what they were undergoing amid the clink of cutlery and crock...

I walk across the park to her flat. It is over-heated and there is a great deal of pink. This used n...

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

To steel yourself against mangoes showed a degree of iciness that was almost inhuman.

Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up ...

All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, th...

I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing m...

Well, what do you think? Avanti?""Avanti," cries everyone, and, after a few quick re-tunings of our ...

I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write,...