Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
WILLIAM GOLDINGYou’ll get back to where you came from.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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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.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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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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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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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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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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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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