black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

V.S. Naipaul

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

Children Feeling Home Ideas Night Place Safety
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.
V.S. NAIPAUL

Death Man Moments Myself Sadness Sorrow Strange Victory
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

Need Reading See Understand Yourself
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
V.S. NAIPAUL

Interest People Time
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
V.S. NAIPAUL

Beginning Community Death End Life Myself Politics
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
V.S. NAIPAUL

Childhood Deal Experience Himself Kind Life Writing
The world is always in movement.
V.S. NAIPAUL

Change Movement One Liner World
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
V.S. NAIPAUL

Abandonment Myself Novel
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
V.S. NAIPAUL

Creation Death Writing
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
V.S. NAIPAUL

End Eyes Need People See World
Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
V.S. NAIPAUL

Enough History Ideas Man Need
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
V.S. NAIPAUL

Book End Live Writing
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
V.S. NAIPAUL

Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
V.S. NAIPAUL

Life Listening Myself
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

City Goodness Heart Lost Path Place Separate Unknown
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
V.S. NAIPAUL

Himself Ignorance Reading

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More V.S. Naipaul Quotes