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
humorous thinking stories
Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
fate too-late late
Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
thinking tree rooted
I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
thinking important matter
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.
men games winner
In life's brief game to be a winner A man must have...oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
hate book long
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.
world nostalgia sometimes
I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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.