Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. V. S. Naipaul More Quotes by V. S. Naipaul More Quotes From V. S. Naipaul 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 niceliteraturemen I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred. V. S. Naipaul ancestrymotherfather I have a very small public. V. S. Naipaul I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people. V. S. Naipaul speakauthoritypeople One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal. V. S. Naipaul universalsituationtrying If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression. V. S. Naipaul lawcountrymoving I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. V. S. Naipaul eyepeopleneeds Writing has to support itself. V. S. Naipaul supportwriting 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 spiritfunthinking 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 londonlostworld You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life. V. S. Naipaul deny I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others. V. S. Naipaul careerspoetrybook I wish my prose to be transparentI don't want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what I'm saying to what I'm describing. I don't want him ever to say, Oh, goodness, how nicely written this is. That would be a failure. V. S. Naipaul want-himwishwriting Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there. V. S. Naipaul neat-and-tidyendslife I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands. V. S. Naipaul landhomepeople All cultures have been mingled forever. V. S. Naipaul has-beensforeverculture Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have enemies. V. S. Naipaul issuespeopleenemy I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate. V. S. Naipaul materialsindividualitymean I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time. V. S. Naipaul feelspeople Africa has no future. V. S. Naipaul
