Making a book is such a big enterprise.
V.S. NAIPAULMaking a book is such a big enterprise.
V.S. NAIPAULI have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
V.S. NAIPAULOne must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
V.S. NAIPAULIf writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
V.S. NAIPAULThe ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
V.S. NAIPAULI could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
V.S. NAIPAULThe first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
V.S. NAIPAULIn a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
V.S. NAIPAULI don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
V.S. NAIPAULI will say I am the sum of my books.
V.S. NAIPAULWriting has to support itself.
V.S. NAIPAULIt is important not to trust people too much.
V.S. NAIPAULIn England people are very proud of being very stupid.
V.S. NAIPAULIf ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
V.S. NAIPAULEverybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
V.S. NAIPAULThere are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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