V. S. Naipaul Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• But everything of value about me is in my books.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Book, Values

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.188, Pan Macmillan

• I will say I am the sum of my books.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Book

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.189, Pan Macmillan

• 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.

• My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Grief, Dirty, Book

• Making a book is such a big enterprise.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Book, Bigs, Enterprise

  "A home for Mr Naipaul". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.

• Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Book, Gone, Fiction

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.190, Pan Macmillan

• Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise

  V. S. Naipaul

  Book, Writing, Luck

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.188, Pan Macmillan

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

  V. S. Naipaul

  Book, Writing, Ends

• I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Book, Careers, Poetry

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.190, Pan Macmillan

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