Seth
Seth
Seth; placed; appointed"), in Judaism, Christianity, Mandaeism, and Islam, was the third son of Adam and Eve and brother of Cain and Abel, who were the only other of their children mentioned by name in the Tanakh. According to Genesis 4:25, Seth was born after Abel's murder, and Eve believed God had appointed him as a replacement for Abel...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth16 September 1962
CountryCanada
book writing successful
Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
temptation spite indian
In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
dream drinking california
I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
music-is be-good
Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
religious causes intolerance
I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
couple eye naps
My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?
order laziness needs
I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
language should novel
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
imagination music-love competent
I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
book strive admirer
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.
writing listening-to-music bother
I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
combining lincoln vampires
It was this weird confrontation of these two delicious flavors that got me consciously or subconsciously combining Lincoln and vampires as an observational in-joke with myself.
austen jane literary perhaps
'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.
national novelist
I'm a big, bombastic novelist and thrill-ride guy. I'm never going to win the National Book Award.