#rite

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#child #distinguished #genius #i #i think

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#comedy #deepest #hysteria #moment #writes

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#distort #facts #fiction #lies #never

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

— V. S. Naipaul

#i #i am #kind #other #people

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

#craft #equipped #felt #had #highest

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

— V. S. Naipaul

#kind #other #people #reading #think

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 publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#behold #editor #feminine #good #publisher

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. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#another #because #childhood #complete #deal

The writer is all alone. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#writer