William Golding Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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.

• 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'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.

  William Golding

  Writing, People, Mind

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• 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

• 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

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• 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

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