212 Quotes by V.S. Naipaul

Small things start us in new ways of thinking.

You would say that he felt that money had made him holy.

I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

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.

We have nothing. We solace ourselves with the great men of our tribe, the Gandhi and the Nehru, and we castrate ourselves. ‘Here, take my manhood and invest it for me. Take my manhood and be a greater man yourself, for my sake!

Africa has no future.