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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.

V.S. Naipaul

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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Easy Element Myself Surprise Writing
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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Detail Friendship Inspirational Life Mystery Writing
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
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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Books Career Feeling Myself
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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Gold Goodness Help Slave Time
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise
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Books Luck Moments Myself Wait Writing

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