V. S. Naipaul said this quote

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

~ V. S. Naipaul

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

~ V. S. Naipaul

What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

~ V. S. Naipaul

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

~ V. S. Naipaul