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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
— V. S. Naipaul
Tags: way, world, you, life

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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.
— V. S. Naipaul
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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.
— V. S. Naipaul
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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
— V. S. Naipaul
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
— V. S. Naipaul
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
— V. S. Naipaul
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