He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI 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.
More William Golding Quotes
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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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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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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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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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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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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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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Which is better — to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better — to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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