147 Quotes by 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.

Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.

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

I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.

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.

I think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people’s lives, the lives of people you don’t know, and you want to know what’s going to happen to them.