And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That’s what you could say about it.
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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I’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe.
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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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.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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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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