Vikram Seth Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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Vikram Seth quotes and sayings page 4 (72 year old novelist). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 61 we have for him.

Vikram Seth Quotes
“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 Quotes
“I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku. But I do look at chess and bridge problems in newspapers. I find that relaxing.”
“The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.”
Vikram Seth Quotes
“I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.”
Vikram Seth Quotes
“In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.”
Vikram Seth Quotes
“I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.”
Vikram Seth Quotes
“I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.”
Vikram Seth Quotes
“I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.”
Vikram Seth Quotes
“Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.”
Vikram Seth Quotes
“I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.”

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