“ I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world. ”
What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
~ V. S. Naipaul
The world is always in movement.
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
