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"The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness."
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"The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth."
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"Stories are like children. They grow in their own way."
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"The literary man re-reads, other men simply read."
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"One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters."
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"We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading."
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"I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe."
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"Fiction is entertaining. Nonfiction is epic."
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"A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images."
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"She found as always that words on paper proved themselves, they were so beautifully true."
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"Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world."
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"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
"The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing."
Darkness
"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
"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
"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."
Experience
"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."
Luck
"The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness."
Literature
"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
"I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading."
People
"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."
People
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