"Many writers tend to write summing-up books at……" — V.S. Naipaul

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their… - V.S. Naipaul

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

— V.S. Naipaul

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115 Quotes by V.S. Naipaul

V.S. Naipaul has 115 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children,…
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when…
Small things start us in new ways of thinking
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it…
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the…
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for…
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your…
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the…
But everything of value about me is in my books.
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms…
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.

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