10 Quotes & Sayings By V S Naipaul

V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad and moved to England as a boy. He returned to Trinidad after the war. His first book, A House for Mr Biswas, was published in 1961 Read more

It won him the Booker Prize for fiction and established him as one of the leading Caribbean writers of his age. He has since written some twenty books, many of them on Caribbean history or on migration to America or Europe. His novel The Mimic Men (1979) won him the Prix Femina (French Academy of Arts and Letters Award).

He has received numerous honors and awards, including the Nobel Prize for Literature; the Nobel Peace Prize; Britain's Order of Merit; Germany's Goethe Medal; France's Légion d'honneur; and Japan's Order of Culture.

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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude. V. S. Naipaul
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The world is always in movement. V. S. Naipaul
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day. V. S. Naipaul
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully. V. S. Naipaul
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I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world. V. S. Naipaul
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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well. V. S. Naipaul
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It is important not to trust people too much. V. S. Naipaul
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe. V. S. Naipaul
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. V. S. Naipaul