As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
V. S. Naipaul

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul

The world is always in movement.
V. S. Naipaul

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
V. S. Naipaul

But everything of value about me is in my books.
V. S. Naipaul

I will say I am the sum of my books.
V. S. Naipaul

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
V. S. Naipaul