I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
V. S. NaipaulIn England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
V. S. NaipaulI had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
V. S. NaipaulWhat matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw up miraculous sports like The Importance of Being Earnest or Decline and Fall- what is good is always what is new, in both form and content. What is good forgets whatever models it might have had, and is unexpected; we have to catch it on the wing.
V. S. Naipaul