I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That’s so many pages longhand.
WILLIAM GOLDINGWe did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
More William Golding Quotes
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People don’t help much.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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I’ve come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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