“I've never abandoned the novel.” — V. S. Naipaul Quote

“I've never abandoned the novel.”

“I'm very content.”

“There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.”

“Two thousand years ago, we abandoned imperialism and militarism. We have been peace-lovers ever since.”

“A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe.”

“After World War II, a lot of people moved to the cities for work and abandoned the old vineyards. Then in the 1950s and 1960s, wineries were paid to produce volume at a cheap price. That's when the Lambruscos and bad Chianti were popular.”