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Quotes by V S Naipaul
- I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
- I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
- If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
- It is important not to trust people too much.
- It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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