V. S. Naipaul

The writer is all alone. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#writer

There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to read about again. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#again #certain #certain things #even #hard

There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#easy #easy way #i #lightly #name

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#give #given #i #lecture #lectures

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.' ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#converted #culture #destroy #does #exist

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#colonial #complex #knows #may #philistine

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#general #i #past #suppose

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

#day #i #learnt #master #me

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#background #character #fiction #had #i

Writers should provoke disagreement. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#provoke #should #writers