I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
V.S. NAIPAULI profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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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 is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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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 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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Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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