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William Golding Quotes about Writing

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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.

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
Book, Writing, Write Your Own

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
Book, Writing, Forget
"Novelists in Interview". Book by John Haffenden, 1985.

I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.

William Golding
Book, Writing, Thinking

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.

William Golding
Book, Writing, Two
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I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very true of English writers, but perhaps not so true of French writers, who seem to read each other passionately, extensively, and endlessly, and who then talk about it to each other - which is splendid.

William Golding
Writing, Mean, Thinking
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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.

William Golding
Writing, Thinking, Unique

Of the authors writing in English, I'd mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I'm afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.

William Golding
Writing, Sound, Hats
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I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.

William Golding
Writing, People, Mind
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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
Jobs, Writing, Bird
William Golding (2013). “Moving Target”, p.139, Faber & Faber

I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.

William Golding
Writing, Mean, Thinking

Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were.

William Golding
Writing, Thinking, Community
Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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