212 Quotes by V.S. Naipaul

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

I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.

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

The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.

I knew the door I wanted. I knocked.

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

The writer is all alone.

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

In what was happening now there was still that element of popular frenzy; but it was also clear that it was more organized, or that at least it had some deeper principle.