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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.

William Golding

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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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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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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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I’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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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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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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