Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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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Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That’s what you could say about 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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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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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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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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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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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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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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