I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThere were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
More William Golding Quotes
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
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His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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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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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don’t think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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