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
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement. — 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
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You… — 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
