But everything of value about me is in my books.

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• V. S. Naipaul:

  Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it a

• V. S. Naipaul:

  That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am do

• V. S. Naipaul:

  All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the myst

• V. S. Naipaul:

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

• V. S. Naipaul:

  The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I di

• V. S. Naipaul:

  I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea

• V. S. Naipaul:

  I will say I am the sum of my books.

• V. S. Naipaul:

  Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what h

• V. S. Naipaul:

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

• V. S. Naipaul:

  In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kin