All William Golding Quotes
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 Golding
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
William Golding
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
William Golding
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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 Golding
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
William Golding
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Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
William Golding
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
William Golding
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