It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the…

Quote by V S Naipaul

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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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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 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 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...

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...

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....

But everything of value about me is in my books.

But everything of value about me is in my books.

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...

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...

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

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 will say I am the sum of my books.

I will say I am the sum of my books.

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 world is always in movement.

The world is always in movement.

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.