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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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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. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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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. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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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. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to read about again. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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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. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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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. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it. ↗

— John Naisbitt

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