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 candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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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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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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The Navy’s a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, ‘Frightfully sorry, old chap.’
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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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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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