V. S. Naipaul Quotes about Past

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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.

Past

V. S. Naipaul (2017). “India: Picador Classic”, p.330, Pan Macmillan

It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter'.

V. S. Naipaul

Past, Doe, Culture

"VS Naipaul withdraws from Turkish event after row over Islam comments" by Benedicte Page, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2010.

To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.

V. S. Naipaul

Book, Past, Long

"V.S. Naipaul in Search of Himself: A Conversation" with Mel Gussow, "The New York Times", April 24, 1994.