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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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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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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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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
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I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.
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To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them the knowledge that serves best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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