V. S. Naipaul

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

— V. S. Naipaul

#mine #quality #quite #read #really

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. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#business #foolish #grandeur #guerrilla #had

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#kind #other #people #reading #think

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

— V. S. Naipaul

#really #thought #tough #writer

I'm very content. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#i #very

I've been a free man. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#free #free man #i #man

I've never abandoned the novel. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#i #never #novel

If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#generate #hostility #writer

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#frauds #go #intellectual #meet #paris

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

— V. S. Naipaul

#going #just #much #oppression #sit