My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
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. NaipaulThis is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
V. S. Naipaul