"Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well."
― V. S. Naipaul
Topic(s): Humor
More From V. S. Naipaul
- "To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter.’"
- "When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day."
- "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."
More In Humor
- "When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?"― Max Frisch
- "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."― William James
- "Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product."― Allen Klein