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“Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.”

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V. S. Naipaul

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

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V. S. Naipaul

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

Attitude

V. S. Naipaul

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.

Loneliness

V. S. Naipaul

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.

Business