“Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.”
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Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidadian-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 published more than thirty books over fifty years. Naipaul's breakthrough novel *A House for Mr Biswas* was published in 1961. He won the Booker Prize in 1971 for his novel In a *Free State,* and the Jerusalem Prize in 1983. In 1990, he was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad and Tobago's highest national honour. He received a knighthood in Britain in 1990, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. Some of his other works include *The Guerillas* (1975), *The Middle Passage* (1962) *A Bend in the River* (1979), *Among the Believers* (1981), *The Enigma of Arrival* (1987), *India: A Million Mutinies Now* (1990), *Beyond Belief* (1998) and *Half a Life* (2001).
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“Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.”
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“This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.”
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“Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.”
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“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.”
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“The world is always in movement.”
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“We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on...”
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“Africa has no future.”
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“I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.”
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“I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.”
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“Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.”
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“I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.”
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“If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.”
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