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" I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands. "

" There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to read about again. "

" I'm very content. "

" One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal. "

" The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate. "

" I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost. "

" My life is short. I can't listen to banality. "

" In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon. "

" The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities. "

" Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. "

" In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India. "

" Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand. "

" I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing. "

" Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. "

" I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment. "

" I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery. "

" There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to. "

" I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. "

" I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time. "

" All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right. "

" All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there. "

" I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. "

" If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account. "

" Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe. "

" I've never abandoned the novel. "

" I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world. "

" I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie. "

" As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are. "

" Making a book is such a big enterprise. "

" I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. "