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
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of… — 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
What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“For the first time in his life he began to experience a kind of true pride. He felt himself, so to speak,… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able… — 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
You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life. — 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
