Cities Quote by V. S. Naipaul

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

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

— V. S. Naipaul

My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

— V. S. Naipaul

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

I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.

— V. S. Naipaul

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

The world is always in movement.

— V. S. Naipaul

At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

— V. S. Naipaul

I'm very content.

— V. S. Naipaul

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

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

I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.

— V. S. Naipaul