#na

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#i #i think #narrative #rap #right

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#between #cold #europe #extraordinary #loneliness

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much. ↗

— Jimmy Nail

#beat #easier #finally #found #got

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#details #documentation #fascinating #friendships #however

I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#became #discovery #i #interested #islamic

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

#business #foolish #grandeur #guerrilla #had

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

#alone #little #narrative #novel #sit

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#book writing #dirty #extraordinary #grief #publishing

My life is short. I can't listen to banality. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#i #life #life is short #listen #my life

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. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#cinema #copying #done #establishing #first