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 amountdetaildocumentation Change image and share on social
The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next. V. S. Naipaul beginbusinessdefine share on social
It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually. V. S. Naipaul attractivebegingroup share on social
How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology. V. S. Naipaul areaatheistbelief Change image and share on social
If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms. V. S. Naipaul bookbreakform Change image and share on social
I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment. V. S. Naipaul charmfriendjudgment Change image and share on social
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. V. S. Naipaul deadgeneratehostility Change image and share on social
There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to read about again. V. S. Naipaul hardpainfulpeople Change image and share on social
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea. V. S. Naipaul guideideaintuition Change image and share on social
I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost. V. S. Naipaul centerhardlondon Change image and share on social
