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V. S. Naipaul


Trinidadian
August 17, 1932
Novelist
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I'm very content.


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Nothing was made in Trinidad.


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Making a book is such a big enterprise.


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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.


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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.


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I will say I am the sum of my books.


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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.


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I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.


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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.


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I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.


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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.


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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.


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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.


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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.


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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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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.
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