"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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"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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"Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others."

Career

"The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing."

Darkness

"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."

Creativity

"One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria."

Comedy

"In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India."

Time

"What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude."

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

People

"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."

Family

"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."

Man

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

People