All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
V.S. NAIPAULThis is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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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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All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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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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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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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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