Trinidadian - Novelist | August 17, 1932 -
Africa has no future.
V. S. Naipaul
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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
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Nothing was made in Trinidad.
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I've never abandoned the novel.
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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.
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It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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