| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 25416 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | William Golding (b. 1911), British author. lecture, Feb. 16, 1977, University of Kent, Canterbury. Rough Magic, repr. In A Moving Target (1982). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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