Quotes by : Vikram Seth

I walk across the park to her flat. It is over-heated and there is a great deal of pink. This used not....

Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a....

All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the....

And sometimes both of them forgot that what they were undergoing amid the clink of cutlery and crockery....

Wherever his faltering mind,unsteadily wanders,he should restrain itand bring it under self-controlKrishna,....

You can't blame her,' said Amit. 'After a life so full of tragedy anyone would become hard.''What tragedy?'....

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking....

There was a few seconds' pause. Then Amit said: I meant, what were you thinking just now.When? said Lata.When....

Well, what do you think? Avanti?""Avanti," cries everyone, and, after a few quick re-tunings of our instruments,....

But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort....