I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
V.S. NAIPAULI’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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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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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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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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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’ve never abandoned the novel.
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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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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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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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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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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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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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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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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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