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August 15, 2018

Because of the intuitive way in which I have written, and also because of the baffling nature of my material, every book has come as a blessing. Every book has amazed me; Up to the moment of writing I never knew it was there. But the greatest miracle for me was getting started. I feel—and the anxiety is still vivid to me—that I might easily have failed before I began.

—V. S. Naipaul
   British writer (1932-2018)


Source: lecture for the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature





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