Top 91 Quotes by V. S. Naipaul

About V. S. Naipaul

These are some quotes by Trinidadian author V. S. Naipaul Novelist, who was born on August 17, 1932.

I've been a free man.

I've been a free man.

V. S. Naipaul

A cat only has itself.

A cat only has itself.

V. S. Naipaul

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

V. S. Naipaul

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

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

V. S. Naipaul

I have a very small public.

I have a very small public.

V. S. Naipaul

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

V. S. Naipaul

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

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.

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

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

V. S. Naipaul

Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.

Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.

V. S. Naipaul

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