132 Quotes by V. S. Naipaul

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

Nothing was made in Trinidad.

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

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.

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

Writers should provoke disagreement.

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

One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.