212 Quotes by V.S. Naipaul

I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.

The chaos lies all within.

Perhaps he had made Africa his subject because he had come to Africa and because he was a scholar, used to working with papers, and had found this place full of new papers.

We exchanged greetings, and in the African way we could make that take time.

I felt his pain as an extra pressure on myself. I mentally added his pain to mine, made it part of my own.

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.

In fact, the only person who seemed to examine the event with some astonishment was myself, who marvelled that such a turn in my life could occur so easily.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.