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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.

-Vikram Seth

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I Spent Many Years Of My Life

Vikram Seth

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.

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But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. but that's not a reason not to write love poetry. some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry.

In pakistan, many of the young people read novels because in the novels, not just my novels but the novels of many other pakistani writers, they encounter ideas, notions, ways of thinking about the world, thinking about their society that are different. and fiction functions in a countercultural way as it does in america and certainly as it did in the, you know, '60s.

There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. words are words. the only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets and have an academic stance. they've got something to lose if they say it's all poetry; if there's not music to it, and you have to wear a certain kind of checkered shirt or something like that. it's all the same. lyrics are lyrics, poetry is poetry, lyrics are poetry, and poetry is lyrics. they are interchangeable to me.

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