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

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

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

" This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true. "

" If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris. "

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

" An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. "

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

" A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.' "

" My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh. "

" I've been a free man. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand. "

" 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. "

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

" The world is always in movement. "

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

" The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next. "

" One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all. "

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

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