If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
V.S. NAIPAULYou can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.
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Writing has to support itself.
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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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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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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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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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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It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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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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