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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
V. S. Naipaul
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V. S. Naipaul
Died: 2018
Died: August 11
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Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
V.S. Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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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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An autobiography can distort facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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The past has to be seen to be dead or the past will kill.
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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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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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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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A cat only has itself.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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