I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world. — 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
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose,… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have… — 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
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. — 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
I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. — 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
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit… — 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
