43 V. S. Naipaul Quotes for You to Enjoy

V. S. Naipaul

Trinidadian Novelist

Born: Aug 17, 1932

Always Nothing People World Writing You

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

Alone Political Guiding System Intuition Idea Always Moved Literary

To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside. V. S. Naipaul

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut. V. S. Naipaul

Good Heart Lost Unknown Defined City Good Place Through Neutral Had No-One Knew Outward Until Been Years Jumble Itself Getting Paths After Place Which Cut Separated Explored Many Ever

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

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