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V. S. Naipaul

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Kreativitas

The writer is all alone.

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Kreativitas

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.

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Waktu

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

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Sukses

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.

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Sukses

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.

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Keluarga

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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Harapan

Africa has no future.

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Kehidupan

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

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Kreativitas

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

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Waktu

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

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Keluarga

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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Kehidupan

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

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Kehidupan

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

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Pendidikan

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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Kejujuran

It is important not to trust people too much.

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Nasihat

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

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