An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
V. S. Naipaul

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Other quotes by V. S. Naipaul

Nothing was made in Trinidad.

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.