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My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

- V. S. Naipaul
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

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.

It is important not to trust people too much.

Making a book is such a big enterprise.

I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

I will say I am the sum of my books.

But everything of value about me is in my books.

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.

If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

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My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.