William Golding Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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.

• Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders.

  William Golding

  Book, Character, Men

  William Golding's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 1983.

• 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

• 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

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I have a confession to make. The love affair of my life has been with the Greek language. I have now reached the age when it has occurred to me that I may have read some books for the last time. I suddenly thought that there are books I cannot bear not to read again before I die. One that stands out a mile is Homer's Iliad.

  William Golding

  Book, Greek, Age

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I hope my books make statements about our general condition.

  William Golding

  Book, Conditions, Statements

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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