V. S. Naipaul's Quotes

V. S. Naipaul's Quotes 16

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things...

It is important not to trust people too much.

When I learnt to write I became my own master I became very strong and that...

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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a...

Home is I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night and a lamp in the...

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To be converted you have to destroy your past destroy your history. You have...

Great writing can be done in biography history art.

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out...

Africa has no future.

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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience because it's complete....

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla...

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have...

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's...

The writer is all alone.