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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.

V.S. Naipaul

If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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Fiction Growth Intuition
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
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Childhood Deal Experience Himself Kind Life Writing
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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Born Expectation Ideas People Work Yourself
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
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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Ideas Intuition Myself Start Trust Understand Writing
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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Ideal Reveal Start View World Wrong
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
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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People Sadness Stupidity World

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