Writers should provoke disagreement.
V.S. NAIPAULI will say I am the sum of my books.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
-
-
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
V.S. NAIPAUL -
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
V.S. NAIPAUL -
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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 -
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
V.S. NAIPAUL -
There 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.
V.S. NAIPAUL -
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
V.S. NAIPAUL -
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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 -
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
V.S. NAIPAUL -
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
V.S. NAIPAUL -
I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
V.S. NAIPAUL -
The 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. NAIPAUL -
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
V.S. NAIPAUL -
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
V.S. NAIPAUL