Books Quote by V. S. Naipaul

If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms.

— Charles J. Shields

Each of my book arrives at a form and a style that is appropriate to the subject.

— Geoff Dyer

You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully.

— Richard Flanagan

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

— E. L. Doctorow

If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.

— A.M. Homes

I don't have much interest in writing if there are not opportunities to crack open the inherited forms. The writing I love to read…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

You have to learn how to write each book.

— Kate DiCamillo

Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

— Laverne Cox

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I…

— Paul Auster

Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to…

— Junot Diaz

Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.

— Henry Miller