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.
V.S. NAIPAULA civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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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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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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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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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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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.
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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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The world is always in movement.
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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 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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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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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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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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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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The writer is all alone.
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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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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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You 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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