Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. ✨ A singular wri…

V. S. Naipaul
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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. ✨ A singular writer. Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. ✨ V. S. Naipaul (2012). Literary Occasions: Essays, p.190, Pan … ▶
How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their char … ▶
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. ✨ V. S. Naipaul (2012). Literary Occasions: Essays, p.188, … ▶
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands. ✨ A home for Mr Naipaul. Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.
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. ✨ V. S. Naipaul (2012). Literary Occasions: E … ▶

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. ✨ A singular writer. Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.

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