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

- Vikram Seth
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Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.

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

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.

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

Of course, a law that is selectively used is in one aspect even worse than a law that is generally used because it puts a lot of power in individuals' hands and makes government a rule, not of laws, but of people.

I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.

Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.

I'm actually a very lazy person. Most of the time, I'm happy to sit around and stare. Or watch bad TV soaps. It's quite rare for me to get inspired by anything, but it could be something small. A view of the Serpentine. A snatch of music. Or a little shred of conversation overheard on a bus, such as, 'You also will marry someone of my choice.'

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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