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
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
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
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
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
