V. S. Naipaul Quotes About Ideas

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  • I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

    V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.201, Pan Macmillan
  • I often wonder what would have happened to me if I hadn't made that decision. I suppose I would have sunk. I suppose I would have found some kind of hole and tried to hide or pass. After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities. I would have hidden in my hole and been crippled by my sentimentality, doing what I was doing, and doing it well, but always looking for the wailing wall. And I would never have seen the world as the rich place that it is. You wouldn't have seen me here in Africa, doing what I do.

    V. S. Naipaul (2012). “A Bend in the River”, p.94, Pan Macmillan
  • If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie.

  • I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

    V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.189, Pan Macmillan
  • Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.

    V. S. Naipaul (2012). “The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections”, p.252, Pan Macmillan
  • One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.

    V. S. Naipaul (2012). “A Turn in the South”, p.53, Pan Macmillan
  • The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

    V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.189, Pan Macmillan
  • After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.

    V. S. Naipaul (2012). “A Bend in the River”, p.94, Pan Macmillan
  • Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

    "A home for Mr Naipaul". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.
  • In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.

    V.S. Naipaul (2010). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.239, Vintage
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