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. Vikram Seth Read Quote
Realism hasn’t fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people’s lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It’s a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis. Vikram Seth Read Quote
As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything – but I’ve noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me. Vikram Seth Read Quote
In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn’t easy either, and for someone who’s quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage. Vikram Seth Read Quote
On the whole, I don’t like reading long books. I’m not a fan of ‘Ulysses.’ And I haven’t quite finished ‘War and Peace.’ Vikram Seth Read Quote
My main motivation is not to get bored. I’m just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation. Vikram Seth Read Quote
I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work. Vikram Seth Read Quote
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. Vikram Seth Read Quote
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English. Vikram Seth Read Quote
Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something. Vikram Seth Read Quote
