Writing Quotes by V. S. Naipaul

V. S. Naipaul

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

Details

Documentation

Writing

V. S. Naipaul

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

Pieces

Two

Writing

V. S. Naipaul

I wish my prose to be transparentI don’t want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what I’m saying to what I’m describing. I don’t want him ever to say, Oh, goodness, how nicely written this is. That would be a failure.

Want Him

Wish

Writing

V. S. Naipaul

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

Comedy

Hysteria

Writing

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.

Ideas

Intuition

Writing

V. S. Naipaul

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

Masters

Strong

Writing

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Writing Quotes by V. S. Naipaul

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

I wish my prose to be transparentI don’t want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what I’m saying to what I’m describing. I don’t want him ever to say, Oh, goodness, how nicely written this is. That would be a failure.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

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.

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

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