V. S. Naipaul Quotes About Book
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My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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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
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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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.
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I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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