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“The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.”

Quote by V. S. Naipaul

Book:Literary Occasions: Essays

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Literary Occasions: Essays

This book is a compilation of essays that delve into a range of literary subjects, offering insights and analyses on different aspects of literature. more

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V. S. Naipaul, born on August 17, 1932, is a British writer known for his sharp observations and profound insights. His works primarily focus on themes such as colonialism, race, class, and identity, deeply revealing the complexities and contradictions of human society. Naipaul has won the Nobel Prize in Literature and is considered one of the most outstanding writers of the 20th century. more

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“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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“I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.”

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“It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.”

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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.”

Wells Kind Able Deals Childhood Goes On Processing Life Goes On

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“The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.”

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“There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.”

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“This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.”

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Book:Literary Occasions: Essays

Source: Literary Occasions: Essays