I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have writte…

V. S. Naipaul
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years. ✨ V. S. Naipaul (2012). Literary Occasions: Essays, p.189, Pan Macmillan
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