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.
V.S. NAIPAULI became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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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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Writing has to support itself.
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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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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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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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The writer is all alone.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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