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 GOLDINGWe have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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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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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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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The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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People don’t help much.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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