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.
V.S. NAIPAULHome is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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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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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 don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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All cultures have been mingled forever.
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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