Trinidadian - Novelist | August 17, 1932 -
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
V. S. Naipaul
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
EndWriteBooksManyLivesTend
I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to read about again.
PeopleSometimesWriteHardPainful
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.
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