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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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I will say I am the sum of my books.

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One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.

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

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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.'

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

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Nothing was made in Trinidad.

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

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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

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I'm very content.

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Africa has no future.

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I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

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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.

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Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.

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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

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