Vikram Seth Quotes

I'm always fascinated by why a person becomes a writer.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I can't wait to tell it, I can't wait to see how it ends.

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

I started writing books because I couldn't find the books I wanted to read on the shelf.

I've always been writing.

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bones? Sometimes when I'm writing, I can feel my bones vibrating because I'll have a thought or I'll have a character's voice in my head, and that's when I know I'm on the right track.

Even if I never sold another book, I'd keep writing, because the stories are here, in my head. Stories that just need to be told. I love watching a plot unfold, and feeling the surprise when the unexpected happens.

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing.

The best books arise from some ultimate question in the author.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

I was one of those kids who always wrote.

I can't envisage stopping writing.

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.