V. S. Naipaul Quotes


To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them; the knowledge that serves best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself.


Citations

Naipaul, V. S. A House for Mr Biswas. Andre Deutsch, 1961, p. 331.

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V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul
  • Born: August 17, 1932
  • Died: August 11, 2018
  • Nationality: Trinidadian
  • Profession: Novelist

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul TC, commonly known as V. S. Naipaul, and familiarly, Vidia Naipaul, was a Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels. He wrote in prose that was widely admired, but his views sometimes aroused controversy. He published more than thirty books over fifty years.