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V S Naipaul Quotes

To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up Picture Quote #1

The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law Picture Quote #1

I thought how terrible it would have been if, as could so easily have happened, I had died without knowing this depth of satisfaction, this other person that I had just discovered within myself. It was worth any price, any consequence Picture Quote #1

To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them;... Best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself Picture Quote #1

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not Picture Quote #1

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing Picture Quote #1

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I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world Picture Quote #1

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right Picture Quote #1

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred Picture Quote #1

Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe Picture Quote #1

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands Picture Quote #1

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well Picture Quote #1

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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day Picture Quote #1

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To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up (V S Naipaul Quotes) The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law (V S Naipaul Quotes) I thought how terrible it would have been if, as could so easily have happened, I had died without knowing this depth of satisfaction, this other person that I had just discovered within myself. It was worth any price, any consequence (V S Naipaul Quotes) To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them;... Best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself (V S Naipaul Quotes) I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not (V S Naipaul Quotes) If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing (V S Naipaul Quotes) I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world (V S Naipaul Quotes) All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right (V S Naipaul Quotes) I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred (V S Naipaul Quotes) Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe (V S Naipaul Quotes) 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 Quotes) Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well (V S Naipaul Quotes) When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day (V S Naipaul Quotes)

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