"The biography of a writer - or even……" — V.S. Naipaul
"The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness."
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115 Quotes by V.S. Naipaul
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children,…
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when…
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking
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Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it…
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And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the…
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The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for…
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It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your…
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the…
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms…
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is…
— Kate Atkinson
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
— John Berger
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'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.
— Mary J. Blige
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Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data…
— Nicholas Delbanco
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Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of…
— Marilyn Ferguson
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Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.
— Robert Breault
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I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so…
— Philip Roth
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Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
— Nikola Tesla
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But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when…
— Nikola Tesla
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When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
— Nikola Tesla
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A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.
— Nikola Tesla
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