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" I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world. "

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" Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others. "

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" If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms. "

" If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. "

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" A cat only has itself. "

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

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" When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day. "

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" Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in. "

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" 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. "