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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.
V. S. Naipaul
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V. S. Naipaul
Died: 2018
Died: August 11
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Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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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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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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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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I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.
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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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