As quoted from , "VS Naipaul: A controversial author who crafted his lines and insults", Indian Express (12 August 2018) https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/books/vs-naipaul-a-controversial-author-who-crafted-his-lines-and-insults/
“A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge.”
“It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn’t understand.”
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (October 27, 1888)
Letters
Source: On a writer’s responsibility in “The Literature of Uprootedness: An Interview with Reinaldo Arenas” https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-literature-of-uprootedness-an-interview-with-reinaldo-arenas in The New Yorker (2013 Dec 5)
“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
Variant: Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
On not feeling that a place is truly home in “Ariel Dorfman: 'Not to belong anywhere, to be displaced, is not a bad thing for a writer'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/09/ariel-dorfman-not-to-belong-anywhere-to-be-displaced-is-not-a-bad-thing-for-a-writer in The Guardian (2018 May 9)
Writers on Themselves (1986)
Source: Postscript to the Name of the Rose
“You’re a dead man,” Kyle said. “Warren doesn’t take kindly to people who hurt me.”
Source: Frost Burned
