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