In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start,… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea;… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the… — 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
