At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
From V. S. Naipaul
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
Nothing was made in Trinidad.
I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.
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