One isnโt born oneโs self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other peopleโs ideas โ and you have to work through it all.
V. S. NaipaulYou need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
V. S. NaipaulI grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.
V. S. NaipaulAll the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
V. S. NaipaulLook, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the world and you just thinking up everything else? Like me here, having the only mind in the world, and thinking up you people here, thinking up the war and all the houses and the ships and them in the harbour. That ever cross your mind?
V. S. Naipaul