“If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws y...” — V. S. Naipaul Quote

“If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.”

“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.”

“I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.”

“I feel I can channelise my aggression to the right thing and be a good bowler, a world class bowler.”

“I grew up as a boy with aggression.”

“I'm always surprised at the negative response to the women in my books who are openly ambitious or experience aggression.”