I will say I am the sum of my books.

Quote by V S Naipaul

Topics: V S Naipaul Quotes

But everything of value about me is in my books.

But everything of value about me is in my books.

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

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

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is...

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is...

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid...

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid...

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew,...

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew,...

In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was...

In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was...

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

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

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When...

We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When...

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively....

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively....

The world is always in movement.

The world is always in movement.

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

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

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

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

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become...

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become...

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had...

I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had...

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest...

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest...

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew,...

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew,...

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in...

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in...

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on...

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on...