One always writes comedy at the moment o... by V. S. Naipaul | We Heart Quotes

Comedy Novelist Literature Nobel Prize Identity

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

- V. S. Naipaul

Other quotes by V. S. Naipaul

Intuition Writing Business Now

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

Career

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

- V. S. Naipaul

Books Will

I will say I am the sum of my books.

- V. S. Naipaul

People

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.

- V. S. Naipaul

Writing Will Life

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

- V. S. Naipaul

London World

I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.

- V. S. Naipaul

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