But everything of value about me is in my books.
V. S. Naipaul

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul

The world is always in movement.
V. S. Naipaul

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
V. S. Naipaul

I will say I am the sum of my books.
V. S. Naipaul

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
V. S. Naipaul