V. S. Naipaul Quotes
Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
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Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
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My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.
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Angulo presents a difficult challenge because he's a fighter who can punch and take a great punch.
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I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.
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We had to do the same thing here. To top that sequel was quite a task. Mike had a couple of good conceptual humour and character ideas, which got me back into it.
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Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.
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My process seems to be unusual in the sense that I don't create worlds before characters. With me, character is king.
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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
