William Golding 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

  Libro, Carácter, Hombres

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

• No fue hasta los 37 años cuando comprendí la gran verdad de que tienes que escribir tus propios libros y los de nadie más, y luego todo siguió a partir de ahí.

  William Golding

  Libro, Escritura, Escribe el tuyo

• 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

  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

• Tengo que confesar algo. El amor de mi vida ha sido la lengua griega. He llegado a una edad en la que se me ha ocurrido que puede que haya leído algunos libros por última vez. De repente pensé que hay libros que no soportaría no volver a leer antes de morir. Uno de los más destacados es la Ilíada de Homero.

  William Golding

  Book, Greek, Age

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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

  William Golding

  Book, Conditions, Statements

  Fuente: 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

  Libro, Escritura, Dos

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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