V. S. Naipaul Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Book, Past, Long

  "V.S. Naipaul in Search of Himself: A Conversation" with Mel Gussow, "The New York Times", April 24, 1994.

• It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter'.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Past, Doe, Culture

  "VS Naipaul withdraws from Turkish event after row over Islam comments" by Benedicte Page, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2010.

• What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Attitude, Past

  V.S. Naipaul (2010). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.238, Vintage

• The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Past

  V. S. Naipaul (2017). “India: Picador Classic”, p.330, Pan Macmillan

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