V. S. Naipaul : (8)

" The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities. " - V. S. Naipaul

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

" 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

" To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there’s less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it’s not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside. " - 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

" A cat only has itself. " - V. S. Naipaul

" If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead. " - V. S. Naipaul

" It is important not to trust people too much. " - V. S. Naipaul