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
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- The writer is all alone.
- If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
- What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
- The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
- I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.