One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

Quote by V S Naipaul

Topics: V S Naipaul Quotes

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...

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...

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told...

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told...

The world is always in movement.

The world is always in movement.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am...

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am...

I will say I am the sum of my books.

I will say I am the sum of my books.

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,...

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 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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.