The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
V.S. NAIPAULMaking a book is such a big enterprise.
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All cultures have been mingled forever.
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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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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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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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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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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 feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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