When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
V.S. NAIPAUL
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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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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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.
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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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The writer is all alone.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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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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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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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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