Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. -V. S. Naipaul 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. -V. S. Naipaul Home
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day. -V. S. Naipaul Strength
What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully. -V. S. Naipaul Chance
