Quotes About Naipaul

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this out: I'm thinking of DeLillo's contention in 'Mao II' that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who 'alter the inner-life of the culture.' I thought that was marvellous!

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

In India: A Wounded Civilization, Naipaul writes that 'the Indian way of experiencing' means that 'the outer world matters only in so far as it affects the inner'.

A complying memory has obliterated many of them and edited my childhood down to a brief cinematic blur.

The myth of Naipaul... has long been a farce.

found, to his surprise, that he had put an end to their threats.

They were a hospitable couple and they made a point (I feel for religious reasons) of offering hospitality to frightened or stranded foreigners.

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.