Vikram Seth quote: "I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku. But I do look at chess and bridge problems in newspapers. I find that relaxing."

When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened,...
VIKRAM SETH

I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reform...
VIKRAM SETH

If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, wh...
VIKRAM SETH

You can talk good ideas out of existence.
VIKRAM SETH

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
VIKRAM SETH

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of...
VIKRAM SETH

I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
VIKRAM SETH

As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the curre...
VIKRAM SETH

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

The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying on...
VIKRAM SETH

It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time t...
VIKRAM SETH

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

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
VIKRAM SETH

Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or ...
VIKRAM SETH

I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
VIKRAM SETH

In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
VIKRAM SETH

I'm actually a very lazy person. Most of the time, I'm happy to sit around and stare. Or wat...
VIKRAM SETH

Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are alre...
VIKRAM SETH

My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.
VIKRAM SETH

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
VIKRAM SETH

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
VIKRAM SETH

I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
VIKRAM SETH

God save us from people who mean well.
VIKRAM SETH

Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives ra...
VIKRAM SETH

I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
VIKRAM SETH

Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and au...
VIKRAM SETH

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

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as s...
VIKRAM SETH

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

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

Romantic retrospect aside, the night spent in the truck is distinctly unpleasant. We are cramped and...
VIKRAM SETH

In a double biography, an intertwined meditation, where the author is an anomalous third braid, some...
VIKRAM SETH

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been ...
VIKRAM SETH

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostal...
VIKRAM SETH

Oh, no said her mother sadly. You know nothing of the pettiness of women. When brothers agree to spl...
VIKRAM SETH

On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I hav...
VIKRAM SETH

If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tack...
VIKRAM SETH

I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot...
VIKRAM SETH

How rarely these few years, as work keeps up aloof,
Or fares, or one thing or another,
How...
VIKRAM SETH

But what should I do?' Varun was saying. 'I'm not good for anything.'
'Write a book! Pull a ric...
VIKRAM SETH

ghazal that he had heard Saeeda Bai sing, but, oddly,
VIKRAM SETH

What I mean is,’ continued Amit, ‘it sprouts, and grows, and spreads, and drops down branches th...
VIKRAM SETH

There was just enough room for the tonga to get through among the bullock-carts, rickshaws, cycles a...
VIKRAM SETH

I triumph and rejoice that my action should have obtained your approval; nor am I disturbed when I h...
VIKRAM SETH

I'm not a mouse or a tigress, she thought, I'm a hedgehog.
VIKRAM SETH

Wherever his faltering mind,
unsteadily wanders,
he should restrain it
and bring it u...
VIKRAM SETH

Whenever she opened a scientific book and saw whole paragraphs of incomprehensible words and symbols...
VIKRAM SETH

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

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

VIKRAM SETH

He had come to a decision about the next step in his life. This decision was irrevocable unless he c...
VIKRAM SETH

I've always felt that the performance of a raag resembles a novel - or at least the kind of novel I'...
VIKRAM SETH

The Fever Bird

The fever bird sand out last night.
I could not sleep, try as I might...
VIKRAM SETH

The ifs and buts of history...form an insubstantial if intoxicating diet.
VIKRAM SETH

She had dispersed. She was the garden at Prem Nivas (soon to be entered into the annual Flower Show)...
VIKRAM SETH

Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this ...
VIKRAM SETH

Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
VIKRAM SETH

Man without life companion is either god or beast.
VIKRAM SETH

And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
VIKRAM SETH

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

Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters mig...
VIKRAM SETH

She was quite pretty too in those days; indeed, perhaps she still was. But for some reason none of h...
VIKRAM SETH

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

You look at most artists, the arc of their career, there's a definite decline at the end. And th...
SETH

For me, the very last great strip is 'Peanuts.' After 'Peanuts,' there are a very fe...
SETH

When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laugha...
SETH

I think obviously there's a core of who you are, and as you get older, you become more aware of ...
SETH

There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experien...
VIKRAM PATEL

I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend m...
VIKRAM PATEL

In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million p...
VIKRAM PATEL

I used to be one of the lead actors of a theatre group called Hetu when I was in medical school. Pri...
VIKRAM PATEL

No matter where you are, depression responds to the same treatment.
VIKRAM PATEL

It is easy to lay the blame on successive governments for failing to address health as a fundamental...
VIKRAM PATEL

I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dism...
VIKRAM PATEL

Most aid agencies do not even consider proposals to treat mental health problems; those that do thin...
VIKRAM PATEL

Depression has existed as long as mankind itself, and certainly well before psychiatry, antidepressa...
VIKRAM PATEL

I have known I was destined to live in Goa the moment I first stepped foot on the Panjim docks from ...
VIKRAM PATEL

Most of the people who make decisions about global health are in the U.S. and Western Europe. There,...
VIKRAM PATEL

Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic...
VIKRAM PATEL

In my mind, depression is, like all non-communicable diseases, a physiologically expressed condition...
VIKRAM PATEL

I am passionate about swimming, which I try to do at least five times a week.
VIKRAM PATEL

I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind...
VIKRAM PATEL

The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the r...
VIKRAM PATEL

In many parts of the world, chaining of people with mental illnesses is not uncommon, nor is seeing ...
VIKRAM PATEL

Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who ...
VIKRAM PATEL

Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem...
VIKRAM PATEL

Children have to be provided a nurturing environment to grow. Sadly, in India we don't have a ro...
VIKRAM PATEL

If our children are becoming teenagers who are abusive, have mental health issues, and are committin...
VIKRAM PATEL

There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professio...
VIKRAM PATEL

Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don&...
VIKRAM CHATWAL

My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I w...
VIKRAM CHATWAL

I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
VIKRAM CHATWAL

Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
VIKRAM CHATWAL

I believe in numbers and signs.
VIKRAM CHATWAL

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual as...
VIKRAM CHATWAL

Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
VIKRAM CHATWAL

Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.
VIKRAM CHATWAL

Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.
VIKRAM CHATWAL

Mental health can improve overall well-being and prevent other illnesses. And since mental health pr...
VIKRAM PATEL

The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health probl...
VIKRAM PATEL

People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.
VIKRAM CHATWAL

India remains one of the few nations which still focuses entirely on an archaic de-addiction model, ...
VIKRAM PATEL

There is no evidence to show that prohibition has ever had its intended impact. Of course, just as b...
VIKRAM PATEL

It was a good wicket for the two days we played. We were fortunate enough to win the toss and post a...
VIKRAM SOLANKI

The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.
VIKRAM CHANDRA

What could my mother be
to yours? What kin is my father
to yours anyway? And how
did ...
VIKRAM CHANDRA

If the trial court was wrong in letting her serve as her own counsel, that's not a mistake that's im...
VIKRAM AMAR

Unless a legislature passes a bill testing the opinion, there is no way to know if the court's opini...
VIKRAM AMAR

A parade is defined by who is in it. Its identity consists of who is in it. The inclusion of any pol...
VIKRAM AMAR

At one level this is a very technical, dry case about when deference is owed (to an executive interp...
VIKRAM AMAR

Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.'
'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of ot...
VIKRAM CHANDRA

We are about 30 percent of the market [for blade server switches], making us one of the largest [ven...
VIKRAM MEHTA

After the tour to Pakistan, we just thought we'll take some time off and spend it here. I had hoped ...
VIKRAM SOLANKI

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talente...
VIKRAM ROHIT SHETTY

My grandfather made films on God, I make it on the devil, so, I wonder what he would say if he was a...
VIKRAM ROHIT SHETTY

I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre ...
VIKRAM ROHIT SHETTY

In this so called high-society there is value of a dress but not of a person.
So give me less f...
VIKRAM SINGH SLATHIA

Without a Uniform Civil Code, labelling India be Secular nation is just a illusion.

Unifo...
VIKRAM SINGH SLATHIA

Sometime I want to talk, and you all are there but words are not.
VIKRAM SINGH SLATHIA

I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.
SETH ROGEN

The most attractive habitats for synthetic sentience might be the vicinities of exceptional sources ...
SETH SHOSTAK

If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in E...
SETH ROGEN

The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there'...
SETH GODIN

I loved the Rumble that Shawn Michaels won. Bulldog threw him over, and he hung on by the skin of th...
SETH ROLLINS

Hollywood usually guesses that extraterrestrials would only be interested in one of three things: (1...
SETH SHOSTAK

It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages ...
SETH SHOSTAK

Before I discovered CrossFit, I was really just doing regular bodybuilding, didn't understand at...
SETH ROLLINS

Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told....
SETH GODIN

'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered...
SETH MACFARLANE

Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the t...
SETH GODIN

A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an id...
SETH GODIN

The number one thing to steal from your competitors: Wisdom.
SETH GODIN

I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.
SETH MACFARLANE

My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improve...
SETH GODIN

One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabular...
SETH GODIN

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
SETH GODIN

The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following...
SETH GODIN

True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will...
SETH BROWN

If it looks like shit, smells like shit, and feels like shit, you don't have to actually eat it to k...
SETH EISENBERG

Rules are just helpful guidelines for stupid people who can't make up their own minds.
SETH HOFFMAN

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pre...
SETH GODIN

And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change p...
SETH GODIN

Admittedly, it would take industrial-grade chutzpah and a massive dose of malevolence for anyone to ...
SETH SHOSTAK

When I graduated high school, nearly a half-million people subscribed to 'Popular Electronics...
SETH SHOSTAK

It's hard to imagine anything more interesting than learning how we're woven into the enormo...
SETH SHOSTAK

My styles range quite a bit. I go for an all-around kind of fan. Never wanted to be the dude that co...
SETH ROLLINS

Today's voguish threats, including climate change, population growth, massive war, and resource ...
SETH SHOSTAK

It's worth noting that invoking God as the entity who set our universe in motion isn't contr...
SETH SHOSTAK

The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.
SETH GODIN

I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designer...
SETH GREEN

At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and w...
SETH MACFARLANE

A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in o...
SETH SHOSTAK

Working with Al Pacino was an amazing experience. He's such an amazing guy. He's an incredib...
SETH NUMRICH

I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something...
SETH ROGEN

Are two eyes, four appendages and an upright posture really essential for any creature that can ace ...
SETH SHOSTAK

For just a few dollars a dose, vaccines save lives and help reduce poverty. Unlike medical treatment...
SETH BERKLEY

The thing to keep in mind is that we're still in the very early days when it comes to the search...
SETH SHOSTAK

'What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love t...
SETH SHOSTAK

The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense...
SETH LOW

You can't stop wars to build tertiary teaching hospitals, but you can say, 'Let's stop f...
SETH BERKLEY

I love science, and I believe in it. I have a faith that science can solve problems and make the wor...
SETH BERKLEY

When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations, and making bold steps that change the course...
SETH BERKLEY

Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher...
SETH BERKLEY

History will not judge HIV/AIDS kindly... the harshest words will be reserved for how the world resp...
SETH BERKLEY

I was a serial monogamist.
SETH BERKLEY

In large part, thanks to widespread immunization, the number of young children dying each year has d...
SETH BERKLEY

I wish we could have state-of-the-art hospitals in every corner of the earth... but realistically, i...
SETH BERKLEY

We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.
SETH BERKLEY

Now, you might think of flu as just a really bad cold, but it can be a death sentence. Every year, 3...
SETH BERKLEY

Healthy children are more likely to attend school and are better able to learn. Healthy workers are ...
SETH BERKLEY

When AIDS first appeared, people didn't know what it was. You'll remember that it affected m...
SETH BERKLEY

Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our pro...
SETH BERKLEY

The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted. It mutates fur...
SETH BERKLEY

You'd see little shallow graves, lined up, one after the other - babies. That's what happens...
SETH BERKLEY

New vaccines are being developed all the time, which could save many more lives and dramatically imp...
SETH BERKLEY

Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to th...
SETH BERKLEY

The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes fro...
SETH BERKLEY

Now, when you get a viral infection, what normally happens is it takes days or weeks for your body t...
SETH BERKLEY

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.
SETH BERKLEY

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rura...
SETH SHOSTAK

Each year, thousands of UFOs are sighted and reported, which is an impressive tally of unidentified ...
SETH SHOSTAK

Of course there is still unexplored terrestrial territory, but most of it is waterlogged. Submersed ...
SETH SHOSTAK

I've done bingo halls and tents in front of 10 people with a cow mooing in the background. Doing...
SETH ROLLINS

I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cr...
SETH MACFARLANE

My mother is an incredibly beautiful woman who has laughed at every single thing my father's eve...
SETH MEYERS

By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn't mean t...
SETH SHOSTAK

These are some of the things for which we believe the American people owe no little gratitude to the...
SETH LOW

The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not ...
SETH SHOSTAK

We're pushing the limits of what a game is, and they think I'm beyond this limit. There will...
SETH PRIEBATSCH

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the sa...
SETH GODIN

The majority of my UFO diet consists of reports describing suspected encounters. This is not surpris...
SETH SHOSTAK

When my girlfriend and I talk about being happy, I'll get choked up, which I think is the greate...
SETH MEYERS

The nice thing about anger is that, as an emotion, it's strong enough to unplug me from the come...
SETH MEYERS

Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.
SETH GODIN

I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The O...
SETH MACFARLANE

Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize ce...
SETH SHOSTAK

People recognise me and come up to me sometimes, but I'm not like George Clooney.
SETH ROGEN

Are we the only members of the Galaxy that can actually understand what a galaxy is? Could Homo sapi...
SETH SHOSTAK

Please, please be very, very diligent in what you do. Your actions could affect more than just yours...
BENNIE SETH

If you live in a county where they do allow you to do outdoor burning and you know you have a lot of...
BENNIE SETH

They're expecting and predicting a very dry early summer, so we need to begin thinking about how we'...
BENNIE SETH

I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku. But I do look at chess and bridge problems in newspapers. I find that relaxing.

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I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku. But I do look at chess and bridge problems in newspapers. I find that relaxing.

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