“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.”
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The writer is all alone.
What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
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.