One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
V.S. NAIPAULHis ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
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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.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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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.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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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.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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