“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.”
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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.
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.
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
It is important not to trust people too much.
