List of V. S. Naipaul Quotes

Where Jargon Turns Living Issues Into Abstractions, And Where Jargon Ends By Competing With Jargon, People Don't Have Causes. They Only Have Enemies.

Trinidad May Seem Complex, But To Anyone Who Knows It, It Is A Simple, Colonial, Philistine Society.

Writing Has To Support Itself.

Africa Is Not A Fun Place, You Know. A Fun Place Is Somewhere That Lifts The Spirits, That Cossets The Senses. I Don't Think That Can Be Said Of The Africa I Traveled In.

I Went To India And Met Some People Who Had Been Involved In This Guerrilla Business, Middle-class People Who Were Rather Vain And Foolish. There Was No Revolutionary Grandeur To It. Nothing.

I've Been A Free Man.

My Grief Is That The Publishing World, The Book Writing World Is An Extraordinary Shoddy, Dirty, Dingy World.

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.

Great Writing Can Be Done In Biography, History, Art.

A Cat Only Has Itself.

I Know My Father And My Mother, But Beyond That I Cannot Go. My Ancestry Is Blurred.

I Have A Very Small Public.