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.’
WILLIAM GOLDINGHow would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
More William Golding Quotes
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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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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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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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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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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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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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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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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Are we savages or what?
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