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
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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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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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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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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It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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The writer is all alone.
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Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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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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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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