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V. S. Naipaul Biography

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "Vidia" Naipaul, TC (/ˈvɪdjɑːdər ˌsuːrədʒprəˈsɑːd ˈnaɪpɔːl, naɪˈpɔːl/; born 17 August 1932), is a British writer of Indian descent and Nobel Laureate who was born in Trinidad. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad and Tobago, his bleaker later novels of the wider world, and his autobiographical chronicles of life and travels. He has published more than thirty books, both of fiction and nonfiction, over some fifty years.

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Making a book is such a big enterprise.

Big, Bigs, Book, Enterprise, Making

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

Element, Judging, Look, Looks, Writing

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

See, Situation, Trying, Universal

I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

Softie, Thought, Tough, Writer

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

Bigger, Grew Up, Left, Quite, World

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

Became, Masters, Strength, Strong, Write, Writing

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

Guiding, Ideas, Intuition, Moved, Political

I've never abandoned the novel.

Abandoned, Novel

Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.

Life Is, Prevent, See, Thing, Waiting, Watches

I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.

Lastingness, Quality, Quite, Sentence, Thinking, Wonderful

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

Complex, May, Philistine, Simple, Trinidad

I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.

Became, Discovery, Interested, Islamic, Simple

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise

Awaits, Aware, Book, Luck, Take, Writing

I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.

Eye, Frailties, Meet, Needs, People

Nothing was made in Trinidad.

Made, Nothing, Trinidad

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.

Decision, Hidden, Ideas, Seen, Wall, World

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

Book, Ends, Tend, Write, Writers, Writing

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

Children, Home, House, Idea, Lamp, Night

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.

Heart, Helps, Idea, Ideas, Men, Reside

Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.

Cossets, Fun, Said, Spirit, Spirits, Thinking

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