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" 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. "

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" To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside. "

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

" You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it. "

" At school I had only admirers; I had no friends. "

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

" Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise. "

" The writer is all alone. "

" If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know? "

" Africa has no future. "

" 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. "

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

" The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. "

" I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred. "

" 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. "

" Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background. "

" A cat only has itself. "

" Making a book is such a big enterprise. "

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

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

" I'm very content. "

" The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing. "

" Writers should provoke disagreement. "

" Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well. "

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

" In England people are very proud of being very stupid. "

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

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

" But everything of value about me is in my books. "

" I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea. "

" It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually. "