Vikram Seth Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.

  Vikram Seth

  Hate, Book, Long

• I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

  Vikram Seth

  Book, Writing, Filling Up

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

  Vikram Seth

  Book, Want, Obscure

• 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

  Book, Reading, Rooms

  Vikram Seth (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.447, Hachette UK

• Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.

  Vikram Seth

  Book, Strive, Admirer

• 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.

  Vikram Seth

  Book, Writing, Successful

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

  Vikram Seth

  Book, Thinking, Should

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