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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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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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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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V. S. Naipaul
Born:
August 17, 1932
Died:
August 11, 2018
(aged 85)
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