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
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
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men. V. S. Naipaul absolutelycinemacopy 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
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
Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in. V. S. Naipaul africacossetfun 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
