V. S. Naipaul Quotes

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V. S. Naipaul

Profession : Novelist

Birth : August 17, 1932

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

V. S. Naipaul

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

V. S. Naipaul

There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.

V. S. Naipaul

The writer is all alone.

V. S. Naipaul

If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?

V. S. Naipaul

One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?

V. S. Naipaul

If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.

V. S. Naipaul

What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

V. S. Naipaul

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

V. S. Naipaul