V. S. Naipaul

It is important not to trust people too much…

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla…

Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp…

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial…

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art…

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have…

One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal…

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And…

It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out…

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

The writer is all alone…

Africa has no future…

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not…

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to…

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and…