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

Quote by V S Naipaul

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The world is always in movement.

The world is always in movement.

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

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

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...

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...

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world...

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world...

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 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...

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 will say I am the sum of my books.

I will say I am the sum of my books.

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'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.

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.

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 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.