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Writing has to support itself.

V.S. Naipaul

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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Books Luck Moments Myself Wait Writing
I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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Myself Quality Quite Reading Thinking Wonderful
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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Ideal Reveal Start View World Wrong
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.
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Affect Calm Destroy Existence History Myself Past People
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
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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Need Reading See Understand Yourself
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
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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Beginning Business Intuition Myself Reason
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
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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Born Expectation Ideas People Work Yourself
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing

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