If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
V.S. NAIPAULWriting has to support itself.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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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
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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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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.
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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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To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn’t know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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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.
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The world is always in movement.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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