I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

Quote by V S Naipaul

Topics: Intuition Quotes

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...

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...

The world is always in movement.

The world is always in movement.

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 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...

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.

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.

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 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...

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

I will say I am the sum of my books.

I will say I am the sum of my books.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

But everything of value about me is in my books.

But everything of value about me is in my books.

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...