Whenever she opened a scientific book and saw whole paragraphs of incomprehensible words and symbols, she felt a sense of wonder at the great territories of learning that lay beyond her – the sum of so many noble and purposive attempts to make objective sense of the world.

— Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth Quotes

I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

— Vikram Seth

You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.

— Vikram Seth

And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.

— Vikram Seth

I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I’m enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.

— Vikram Seth

My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?

— Vikram Seth

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

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

— Vikram Seth

In a painting, you can’t make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist’s stroke.

— Vikram Seth

Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.

— Vikram Seth

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

Whenever she opened a scientific book and saw whole paragraphs of incomprehensible words and symbols, she felt a sense of wonder at the great territories of learning that lay beyond her – the sum of so many noble and purposive attempts to make objective sense of the world.

— Vikram Seth

To steel yourself against mangoes showed a degree of iciness that was almost inhuman.

— Vikram Seth

May we not be as foolish as we are almost bound to be. If we cannot eschew hatred, at least let us eschew group hatred. May we see that we could have been born as each other. May we, in short, believe in humane logic and perhaps, in due course, love.

— Vikram Seth

In the painting I saw, in the books I read, I recalled her, for she her had in many ways been the making of me.

— Vikram Seth

Perhaps it is true that for all the evidence of the mirror, one pictures oneself in some deep niche of the mind as forever 18.

— Vikram Seth

The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.

— Vikram Seth

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

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

— Vikram Seth

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

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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