V. S. Naipaul Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)

“I'm very content.”

“I've been a free man.”

“If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.”

“In England people are very proud of being very stupid.”

“Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.”

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

“Nothing was made in Trinidad.”

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

“I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.”

“If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?”