Quotes by : V. S. Naipaul

It is important not to trust people too much.

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to....

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material.....

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.....

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer,....

The world is always in movement.

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