V. S. Naipaul Quotes

V. S. Naipaul — Trinidadian Novelist born on August 17, 1932,

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, TC, is a Trinidadian Nobel Prize-winning British writer known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad and Tobago, his bleaker later novels of the wider world, and his autobiographical chronicles of life and travels. He has published more than 30 books, both of fiction and nonfiction, over some 50 years... (wikipedia)

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

We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

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

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 Quotes

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