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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

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• Writing has to support itself.

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• Making a book is such a big enterprise.

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• A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.

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• 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.

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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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• My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.

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• Whenever I have had to write fiction, I’ve always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

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• A cat only has itself.

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• Nothing was made in Trinidad.

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• One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.

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• Writers should provoke disagreement.

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• Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

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• All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

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

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• Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

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• 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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• I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.

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• I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

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• I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming – but he had no literary judgment.

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V. S. Naipaul (88)

Birth:	17th August, 1932
Nationality:	British, Trinidadian
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist

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Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad is a Trinidadian-British writer of Indo-Trinidadian heritage of Kanyakubja Brahmin known for his novels focusing on the legacy of the British Empire's colonialism. He has also written works of non-fiction, such as travel writing and essays.

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