Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
V.S. NAIPAULBut everything of value about me is in my books.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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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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Writing has to support itself.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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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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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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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 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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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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All cultures have been mingled forever.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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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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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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