Trinidadian - Novelist | August 17, 1932 -
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
V. S. Naipaul
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The writer is all alone.
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?
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If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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