Any Quote by V. S. Naipaul

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

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

When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last…

— Paul Auster

I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of…

— Lois Lowry

Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.

— Jane Smiley

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

— Marguerite Young

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in…

— Michael Ondaatje

I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view,…

— George Murray

Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written.

— Anthony Burgess

Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far,…

— Salman Rushdie

I always feel that the book I'm working on is my last book.

— Lorrie Moore