Quote

Making a book is such a big enterprise.

V. S. Naipaul

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

V. S. Naipaul
Died: 2018
Died: August 11
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
V.S. Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Enterprise
Bigs
Making
Book

More quotes by V. S. Naipaul

Image
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. 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
Image
It is important not to trust people too much.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
All cultures have been mingled forever.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
People come and go all the time the world has always been in movement.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees it rise to eighteen and does nothing. He is waiting for it to rise to twenty. When it drops to two he waits for it to get back to ten.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
Writers should provoke disagreement.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
I've been a free man.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
A cat only has itself.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
I have a very small public.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
V. S. Naipaul