How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology.
From V. S. Naipaul
I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
A cat only has itself.
I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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