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Africa has no future.

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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.

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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

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Making a book is such a big enterprise.

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One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?

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If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.

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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

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Nothing was made in Trinidad.

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I've never abandoned the novel.

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Biography

Nationality: Trinidadian

Type: Novelist

Born: August 17th, 1932

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