“I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view i...” — Vikram Seth Quote

“I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.”

“You can talk good ideas out of existence.”

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

“In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.”

“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.'”

“Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.”

“Everyone wants to be happy at the end of the day. If we can pursue what we really want to do, we don't get bored of life.”

“I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.”

“I hate getting bored.”

“I really don't do concept stuff very well. If I'm sitting thinking about what kind of song I want to write, within a few minutes, I'm kind of bored. It's just a personal thing for me.”

“After we did the last Allman Brothers Band show, my wife and I just packed up and went to France for pretty much all of 2015, and I just got bored; I got the itch. I wanna play.”

“I never started doing the videos because I thought they were going to get millions of views. I started doing them because I was at home, and I was bored.”