Quotes by : Vikram Seth

You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the....

Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write,....

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

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes....

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my....

Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important....

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

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

In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate....