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" You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it. "
V. S. Naipaul
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" Making a book is such a big enterprise. "
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" Writing has to support itself. "
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" I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not. "
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" Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand. "
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" In England people are very proud of being very stupid. "
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" 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. "
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" An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. "
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" The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing. "
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" One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria. "
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" What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude. "
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" In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet. "
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Will
Fate
" I've been a free man. "
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" If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. "
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He
" Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. "
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Done
Great
" The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. "
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" 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. "
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Roots
Questions
" I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. "
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People
Kind
" We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal. "
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Late
Thinking
" 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. "
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Life
Well
" It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut. "
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Good
Heart
" A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. "
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Dying
Said
" In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon. "
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Way
" Nothing was made in Trinidad. "
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Made
" 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. "
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