Books Quote by William Golding Download Open image “Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.” — William Golding ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Novel Success Successful
Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all the novels… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Once more, amid the breeze, the shouting, the slanting sunlight on the high mountain, was shed that glamour, that strange invisible light of friendship,… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“There ought to be some mode of life where all love is good, where one love can't compete with another but adds to it.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“I stood, in shame and confusion, seeing for the first time despite my anger a different picture of Evie in her life-long struggle to… — William Golding Copy Share Image
When you take a child who's hollering like hell, sit him on your knee, and say "once upon a time", you stop him hollering.… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible. — William Golding Copy Share Image
“He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image