Best V.S. Naipaul Quotations
- Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but… African
- Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand. African
- Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. Art
- I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world. Bigger
- If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. Dead
- If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris. Fraud
- If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account. Account
- In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I… Chained
- Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand. Act
- My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world. Book
- My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh. All
- The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate. Ancillary
- The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. Autobiography
- When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day. Became
- Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background. Background
- The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I… Beginning
- I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow… Ask
- I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard… Always Felt
- It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after… Been
- Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing… Able
- The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what… Absolutely
- There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered… Considered
- This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture… Ask
- The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves. Funny
- His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read. Funny
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