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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

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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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I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.

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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?

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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.

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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

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Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.

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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

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Biography

Nationality: Trinidadian

Type: Novelist

Born: August 17th, 1932

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