While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThere is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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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 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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It may be — I hope it is — redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.
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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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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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