An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
V. S. Naipaul

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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.

I've been a free man.

My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.