About Quote by V. S. Naipaul Download Open image “If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.” — V. S. Naipaul ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare About Oppression Sit Talk Writing
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The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the… — Cherrie Moraga Copy Share Image
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer. — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle Sportif, outside… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
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I talk to my mates about our kids, being too tired and being worn out. — Holly Willoughby Copy Share Image
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That's something a lot of folks don't know about me - I'm pretty darn funny. — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
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One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't about myself… — Lights Copy Share Image
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