An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
V. S. NaipaulI came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
V. S. NaipaulThe biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
V. S. NaipaulHow could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did.
V. S. Naipaul