An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
V. S. NaipaulSome writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
V. S. NaipaulIt is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.
V. S. Naipaul