Vikram Quotes

He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.

Either I will come back after hoisting the Tricolor, or I will come back wrapped in it, but I will be back for sure.

One wants permissive individuals who do not have a compelling need to reassure themselves that they are leaders.

Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.

We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower.

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

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

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

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

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

Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

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

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

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

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

I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.

To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.

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.

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.

In life's brief game to be a winner A man must have...oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.

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

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

How can you tell drops not to fall when rain exists.... How can you tell leaves not to fall when wind exist.... And how can you tell me not to fall in love when you exist...

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

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

Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored

God save us from people who mean well.

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.

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

I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.

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

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

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

It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.

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.

Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

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

Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.

You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

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.

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

It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.