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V. S. Naipaul Quotes

Trinidadian - Novelist | August 17, 1932 -

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

I Am People Reading Think Kind Am

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.

Moment I Am Me Luck Writing Book

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

I Am Writing Surprise Doing Look

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

Will Always Biography Autobiography

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

Business Beginning Writing Go Now

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

Attitude Past General Suppose

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

Darkness World Kind Nothing Outside

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.

Father People Thinking Late India

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.

Children Child World Not Knowing Up

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

Moment Comedy Deepest Always Writes

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

Men World Place Nothing Become Who

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

People Reading Think Kind Writer

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