Top 91 Quotes by V. S. Naipaul

The writer is all alone.

I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

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.

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

I've been a free man.

A cat only has itself.