There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI 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.
More William Golding Quotes
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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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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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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I know there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” Piggy paused. “Unless-” Ralph moved restlessly. “Unless what?” “Unless we get frightened of people.
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Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
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It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
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Are we savages or what?
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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