An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
V.S. NAIPAUL
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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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
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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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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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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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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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The writer is all alone.
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