V. S. Naipaul Quotes
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
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In 'Shaun of the Dead,' it's not Shaun's fault that there's a zombie apocalypse - he just has to get through the day.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.
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Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It's the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.
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The answer to having a better life is not about getting a better life, it's just about changing how we see the one we have right now.
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Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.
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The crisis in Europe has affected the U.S. economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence, and pressuring U.S. financial markets and institutions.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
