V. S. Naipaul

My life is short. I can't listen to banality. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#i #life #life is short #listen #my life

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#behold #editor #feminine #good #publisher

Nothing was made in Trinidad. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#nothing

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#expectations #ideas #mass #other #people

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#makes #must #see #situation #things

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

#another #because #childhood #complete #deal

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#british #city #council #estate #every

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#autobiography #biography #even #incompleteness #will

The world is always in movement. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#movement #world

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

— V. S. Naipaul

#darkness #existed #kind #nothing #outside