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V. S. Naipaul

"I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading."

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"I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost."
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"The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing."
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"We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal."
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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 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."
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"This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true."
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"One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria."
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"But everything of value about me is in my books."
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