When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day. V. S. Naipaul daylearnmaster Change image and share on social
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris. V. S. Naipaul fraudintellectualmeet Change image and share on social
One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all. V. S. Naipaul bearexpectationidea Change image and share on social
What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully. V. S. Naipaul chancedramatizeexplore share on social
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 findfullyidea Change image and share on social
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 actualawaitaware share on social
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 bookcareercase share on social