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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
V. S. Naipaul
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August 17, 1932
Died:
August 11, 2018
(aged 85)
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