Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible… — 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
