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Vikram Seth 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.”

51. “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

Vikram Seth Quote: “You can talk good ideas out of existence.”

52. “You can talk good ideas out of existence.”

— Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth Quote: “All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves with it, and people kneel down in a wave to pray to God. Five waves each day – one for each namaaz – ripple across the globe from longitude to longitude. The component elements change direction, like iron filings near a magnet – towards the house of God in Mecca.”

53. “All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves with it, and people kneel down in a wave to pray to God. Five waves each day – one for each namaaz – ripple across the globe from longitude to longitude. The component elements change direction, like iron filings near a magnet – towards the house of God in Mecca.”

— Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth Quote: “I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.”

54. “I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.”

— Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth Quote: “Good music is good music, but it has to be good.”

55. “Good music is good music, but it has to be good.”

— Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth Quote: “It was a warm evening, and there was less silk and more fine cotton than at Savita’s wedding. But the jewellery glittered just as gloriously. Meenakshi’s little pear-earrings, Veena’s navratan and Malati’s emeralds glinted across the garden, whispering to each other the stories of their owners.”

56. “It was a warm evening, and there was less silk and more fine cotton than at Savita’s wedding. But the jewellery glittered just as gloriously. Meenakshi’s little pear-earrings, Veena’s navratan and Malati’s emeralds glinted across the garden, whispering to each other the stories of their owners.”

— Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth Quote: “Oh, no said her mother sadly. You know nothing of the pettiness of women. When brothers agree to split a joint family they sometimes divide lakhs of rupees worth of property in a few minutes. But the tussle of their wives over the pots and pans in the common kitchen – that nearly causes bloodshed.”

57. “Oh, no said her mother sadly. You know nothing of the pettiness of women. When brothers agree to split a joint family they sometimes divide lakhs of rupees worth of property in a few minutes. But the tussle of their wives over the pots and pans in the common kitchen – that nearly causes bloodshed.”

— Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth Quote: “Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.”

58. “Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.”

— Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth Quote: “Sometimes i write the best about the things that I care about least.”

59. “Sometimes i write the best about the things that I care about least.”

— Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth Quote: “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.”

60. “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.”

— Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth Quote: “Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.”

61. “Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.”

— Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth Quote: “I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.”

62. “I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.”

— Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth Quote: “I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.”

63. “I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.”

— Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth Quote: “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.”

64. “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.”

— Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth Quote: “It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.”

65. “It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.”

— Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth Quote: “Strange to be a man and never grow big with child. To feel a part of you opening, and a part of you leaving, and howling as if it were not a part of you.”

66. “Strange to be a man and never grow big with child. To feel a part of you opening, and a part of you leaving, and howling as if it were not a part of you.”

— Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth Quote: “I have learned to follow another voice, to be alone and to understand things – maybe to be alone and to be misunderstood.”

67. “I have learned to follow another voice, to be alone and to understand things – maybe to be alone and to be misunderstood.”

— Vikram Seth

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