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" Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand. "

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" To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside. "

" Writers should provoke disagreement. "

" Making a book is such a big enterprise. "

" I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands. "

" Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. "

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

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

" I have a very small public. "

" If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris. "

" I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness. "

" I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost. "

" Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. "

" There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to read about again. "

" You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it. "

" If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms. "

" I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment. "

" My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh. "

" I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea. "

" I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred. "

" The world is always in movement. "

" I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world. "

" As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are. "

" My life is short. I can't listen to banality. "

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

" I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years. "

" We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal. "

" One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough? "

" In England people are very proud of being very stupid. "

" I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. "

" All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there. "