Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry. -William G. Golding

 

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.


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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.

William G. Golding

An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.

William G. Golding

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

William G. Golding

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.

William G. Golding

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

William G. Golding