Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle Sportif, outside… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
