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William Golding
English
Novelist
About the author
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,
English
Novelist
#Forget
#Writer
The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.
William Golding,
English
Novelist
#Life
#Will
#Man
#Journey
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
William Golding,
English
Novelist
#Wind
#Flying
#Sleep
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,
English
Novelist
#Routine
#Job
#Nature
#Birds
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
William Golding,
English
Novelist
#Experience
#Language
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
William Golding,
English
Novelist
#Patience
#Sea
What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
William Golding,
English
Novelist
#Man
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
William Golding,
English
Novelist
#Disease
#Childhood
#Sickness
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
William Golding,
English
Novelist
#Faces