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If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.

V.S. Naipaul

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Establishment Greatness Imitation Man Mindset Movie Original Story Time
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
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Easy Element Myself Surprise Writing
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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Book Day Myself Past Writing
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
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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Man Place World Worth
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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Fiction Growth Intuition
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
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
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
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
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust

If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.

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