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 GOLDINGThe writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
More William Golding Quotes
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Are we savages or what?
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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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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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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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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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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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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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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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