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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

William Golding

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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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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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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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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It’s as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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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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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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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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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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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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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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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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