V. S. Naipaul Quotes

• I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Reading

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Intuitively, Sensed, Literary

• But everything of value about me is in my books.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Value

• As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Tags in Not Knowing

• 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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Ant, Events, Forest, Community, Crisis

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mystery, Details

• The world is always in movement.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Change/Growth

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Intuition, Writers And Writing, Understanding, Creativity

V. S. Naipaul (88)

Birth:	17th August, 1932
Nationality:	British, Trinidadian
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist

About

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad is a Trinidadian-British writer of Indo-Trinidadian heritage of Kanyakubja Brahmin known for his novels focusing on the legacy of the British Empire's colonialism. He has also written works of non-fiction, such as travel writing and essays.

Related Authors

• Colin Thomas Johnson
• Alexander Woollcott
• Samuel Beckett
• Roger Angell
• Irving Kristol
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Pico Iyer
• Joan Didion
• Jose Bergamin
• Criss Jami

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 15th November

Births

• 1887 - Marianne Moore
• 1954 - Aleksander Kwasniewski
• 19 - Kevin Rollins
• 1953 - Alexander O'Neal
• 1738 - William Herschel

Deaths

• 1950 - Agnes Repplier
• 1958 - Tyrone Power
• 1998 - Stokely Carmichael
• 1996 - Alger Hiss
• 1982 - Vinoba Bhave