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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My hair is naturally really thin and dead straight, with no movement.
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There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
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The Israeli government has already established a fund to encourage young Arab women, specifically from the Bedouin community, to study engineering. We are funding their university studies and providing them with mentors who assist them with their studies and the job placement process.
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Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.
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Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
