In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win,… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a… — 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
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of… — 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
