S. Naipaul
S. Naipaul
ambition fame mysterious wish
It is mysterious that the ambition should have come first - the wish to be a writer, to have that distinction, that fame - and that this ambition should have come long before I could think of anything to write about.
all-alone
The writer is all alone.
oxford crafts left
I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.