Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
V.S. NAIPAULIf writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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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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Writing has to support itself.
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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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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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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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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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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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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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The writer is all alone.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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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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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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The world is always in movement.
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