I will say I am the sum of my books.
V.S. NAIPAULWriting has to support itself.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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The writer is all alone.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can’t do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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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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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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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 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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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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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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