132 Quotes by V. S. Naipaul

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

I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.

In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

Making a book is such a big enterprise.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.