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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

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
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
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
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
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
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
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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Lecture Myself People Reading True
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
Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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Children Feeling Home Ideas Night Place Safety
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
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Establishment Greatness Imitation Man Mindset Movie Original Story Time
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
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

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