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V. S. Naipaul quotes

Trinidadian Novelist August 17, 1932

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In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India. V. S. Naipaul
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years. V. S. Naipaul
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 many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut. V. S. Naipaul
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others. V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul quote: "I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are..."
I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. V. S. Naipaul
... and it was extraordinary to me that some of the newspapers could have found good words for the butchery on the coast. But people are like that bout places in which they aren't really interested and where thy don't have to live. V. S. Naipaul
Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the world and you just thinking up everything else? Like me here, having the only mind in the world, and thinking up you people here, thinking up the war and all the houses and the ships and them in the harbour. That ever cross your mind? V. S. Naipaul
I often wonder what would have happened to me if I hadn't made that decision. I suppose I would have sunk. I suppose I would have found some kind of hole and tried to hide or pass. After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities. I would have hidden in my hole and been crippled by my sentimentality, doing what I was doing, and doing it well, but always looking for the wailing wall. And I would never have seen the world as the rich place that it is. You... V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul quote: "The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we..."
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing. V. S. Naipaul
A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say “Sum!” because he could see no more. But we who lived there saw our street as a world, where everybody was quite different from everybody else. Mam-man was mad; George was stupid; Big Foot was a bully; hat was an adventurer; Popo was a philosopher; and Morgan was our comedian. V. S. Naipaul
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise. V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul quote: "But everything of value about me is in my books."
But everything of value about me is in my books. V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul quote: "I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I..."
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
V. S. Naipaul quote: "It was in that garage that Alec worked, no longer wearing red..."
It was in that garage that Alec worked, no longer wearing red bodices or peeing blue, but doing mysterious greasy things. V. S. Naipaul
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 to give. And that is true. V. S. Naipaul

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