Quotes by trinidadian authors

I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie. V. S. Naipaul

Thought Tough Writer Really

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise. V. S. Naipaul

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude. V. S. Naipaul

Attitude Past General Suppose

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. V. S. Naipaul

Work Out Writer Had Highest Learn Felt Always Equipped Left Craft Oxford Regard Then Really Set

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. V. S. Naipaul

People Reading Think Other Kind Writer Am

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. V. S. Naipaul

Will Writer Always Autobiography Even Biography

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next. V. S. Naipaul

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not. V. S. Naipaul

Woman Writing Paragraph Know Piece Read Within Whether Two

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing. V. S. Naipaul

Writing Oppression Sit About Writers Talk Going Just Much

I've never abandoned the novel. V. S. Naipaul

Abandoned Never Novel

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. V. S. Naipaul

Art Great History Writing Done Biography

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

Time You People Down Feel Letting Profoundly

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. V. S. Naipaul

Books Tend Write Writers End Many Lives

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account. V. S. Naipaul

Alone You Sit Weave Write Narrative Account Little Novel

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. V. S. Naipaul

World Civilization Taken Over Said Dying Cannot Which

I have a very small public. V. S. Naipaul

Small Very Public

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well. V. S. Naipaul

Life Experience Complete Kind Able Some Life Goes On Only Writer Writers He Well Another Because Deal Goes Childhood Processing Keep

I'm very content. V. S. Naipaul

Content Very

Writing has to support itself. V. S. Naipaul

Writing Support Itself

A cat only has itself. V. S. Naipaul

Only Cat Itself

The writer is all alone. V. S. Naipaul

Alone Writer