V. S. Naipaul Quotes

It takes a long, long time to write what I do write.

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.

I never think that any writer can teach someone how to write.

I don't care about writing really.

I am always trying to write.

Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.

I've always been a very prolific writer.

I don't know how I do it, but I've written about everything. I've written about my shoes.

I really hate to write.

I don't know if I am a good, average, or bad writer, but I write fast. Everything I observe, my experiences and imagination come together while writing.

You have to write what you know.

It really helped me as a writer to understand how other writers think.

I'm writing; I'm teaching myself writing.

I'm constantly writing.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.

No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, don't confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

I find writing really difficult - definitely the most difficult of all the things I do.

Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear in their heads. Of course, self-talk is thinking, and writing begins with thinking.