I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V.S. NAIPAULI 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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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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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Writing has to support itself.
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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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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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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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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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