I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
V.S. NAIPAULI am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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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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Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can’t do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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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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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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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 know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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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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The world is always in movement.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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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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It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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The writer is all alone.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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