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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
— V.S. Naipaul
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
— V.S. Naipaul
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
— V.S. Naipaul
I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
— V.S. Naipaul
At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
— V.S. Naipaul
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
— V.S. Naipaul
I have a very small public.
— V.S. Naipaul
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
— V.S. Naipaul
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
— V.S. Naipaul
It was in that garage that Alec worked, no longer wearing red bodices or peeing blue, but doing mysterious greasy things.
— V.S. Naipaul
It is important not to trust people too much.
— V.S. Naipaul
Like many isolated people, they were wrapped up in themselves and not too interested in the world outside.
— V.S. Naipaul
Certain emotions bridge the years and link unlikely places.
— V.S. Naipaul
I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
— V.S. Naipaul
The writer is all alone.
— V.S. Naipaul
Writers should provoke disagreement.
— V.S. Naipaul
How we flounder when emotion overtakes us.
— V.S. Naipaul
A cat only has itself.
— V.S. Naipaul
I've been a free man.
— V.S. Naipaul
Africa has no future.
— V.S. Naipaul
But this is madness. I am going in the wrong direction. There can't be a new life at the end of this.
— V.S. Naipaul
The President's white men, the promise of order and continuity; and it was oddly comforting, like the sound of rain in the night.
— V.S. Naipaul
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
— V.S. Naipaul
Writing has to support itself.
— V.S. Naipaul
Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
— V.S. Naipaul
The tragedy of power like mine is that there is no way down. There can only be extinction. Dust to dust; rags to rags; fear to fear.
— V.S. Naipaul
The world is always in movement.
— V.S. Naipaul
Whatever they say about going back to the beginning, they'll be interested in the car.
— V.S. Naipaul
He spoke about Africa in an unusual way. He spoke of Africa as though Africa was a sick child and he was the parent.
— V.S. Naipaul
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
— V.S. Naipaul
I will say I am the sum of my books.
— V.S. Naipaul
That was the best time. The last day, the day of leaving. It was a good journey. It became different at the other end.
— V.S. Naipaul
Out of every kind of nervousness I didn't move.
— V.S. Naipaul
I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.
— V.S. Naipaul
![Naipaul Quotes By Rosanne Cash: If Mr. [V.S.] Naipaul takes no pleasure in](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/naipaul-quotes-by-rosanne-cash-1407128.jpg "Naipaul Quotes By Rosanne Cash: If Mr. [V.S.] Naipaul takes no pleasure in")
If Mr. [V.S.] Naipaul takes no pleasure in the happy delineation of the varieties of human nature, then he must be intolerably stupid.
— Rosanne Cash
I'm very content.
— V.S. Naipaul
Nothing was made in Trinidad.
— V.S. Naipaul
I knew the door I wanted. I knocked.
— V.S. Naipaul
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[In]the too solid three-dimensional city, I could never feel myself as anything but spectral, disintegrating, pointless, fluid.
— V.S. Naipaul
I've never abandoned the novel.
— V.S. Naipaul
A complying memory has obliterated many of them and edited my childhood down to a brief cinematic blur.
— V.S. Naipaul
I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.
— V.S. Naipaul
to be among the ruins was to have your time-sense unsettled.
— V.S. Naipaul
Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
— V.S. Naipaul
My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
— V.S. Naipaul
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.
— V.S. Naipaul
Well, India is a country of nonsense. M. K. Gandhi
— V.S. Naipaul
Without always knowing what we were doing we were constantly adjusting to the arbitrariness by which we were surrounded.
— V.S. Naipaul
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
— V.S. Naipaul
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
— V.S. Naipaul
Small things can start us off in new ways of thinking, and I was started off by the postage stamps of our area.
— V.S. Naipaul
The world is what it is: those who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
— Sir Vidya Naipaul
It was a light which gave solidity to everything and drew colour out from the heart of objects.
— V.S. Naipaul
We had become what the world outside had made us; we had to live in the world as it existed.
— V.S. Naipaul
I felt his pain as an extra pressure on myself. I mentally added his pain to mine, made it part of my own.
— V.S. Naipaul
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
— V.S. Naipaul
You would say that he felt that money had made him holy.
— V.S. Naipaul
I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
— V.S. Naipaul
How ridiculous were the attentions the weak paid one another in the shadow of the strong!
— V.S. Naipaul
If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie.
— V.S. Naipaul
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
— V.S. Naipaul
I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
— V.S. Naipaul
All cultures have been mingled forever.
— V.S. Naipaul
But everything of value about me is in my books.
— V.S. Naipaul
You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
— V.S. Naipaul
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
— V.S. Naipaul
You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.
— V.S. Naipaul
