I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V.S. NAIPAULIt is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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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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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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The world is always in movement.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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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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If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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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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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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