I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V.S. NAIPAUL
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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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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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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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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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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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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All cultures have been mingled forever.
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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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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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