The writer is all alone.
V.S. NAIPAULIt is important not to trust people too much.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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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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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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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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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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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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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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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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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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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 isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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