Making a book is such a big enterprise.
V.S. NAIPAULI know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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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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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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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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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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The writer is all alone.
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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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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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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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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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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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