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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

V.S. Naipaul

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
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Learning Myself Strength Strong Writing
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
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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Hell Life Patience Prevent Trouble Wait Yourself
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
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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Born Hands Home Myself People Search
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
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 reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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Beginning Business Intuition Myself Reason
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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Father Reading Right Story
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

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