Quotes by : V.S. Naipaul

Non-fiction can distort facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.

A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys....

...Anand, look at the back of my hands. No hair. The sign of an advanced race, boy. And look at yours.....

The chaos lies all within.

It was a light which gave solidity to everything and drew colour out from the heart of objects.

paradise seemed further away than India, but Hell had become a bit closer

For years and years, even during the time of my first visit in 1962, it has been said that Calcutta was....

A complying memory has obliterated many of them and edited my childhood down to a brief cinematic blur.....

I liked to feel I had to do things perfectly; I felt I was earning my freedom. Though I was in hiding,....

To go back home was to play with impressions in this way, the way I played with the first pair of glasses....