Quote

The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.

William Golding

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Newquay
Cornwall
William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
Became
Cheek
Line
Simon
Hair
Marble
Turn
Shoulder
Lines
Cheeks
Silvered
Turns
Dressed
Sculptured
Water
Shoulders
Coarse
Rose
Brightness

More quotes by William Golding

Image
He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
William Golding
Image
Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.
William Golding
Image
I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
William Golding
Image
What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
William Golding
Image
If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?
William Golding
Image
I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.
William Golding
Image
What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?
William Golding
Image
It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
William Golding
Image
He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
William Golding
Image
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
Image
I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
William Golding
Image
Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in this? I don't know, said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. [...] Ralph shouted. Hear him! He's got the conch! What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us. Nuts! That was from Piggy, shocked out of decorum.
William Golding
Image
At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
William Golding
Image
You'll get back to where you came from.
William Golding
Image
As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.
William Golding
Image
I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
William Golding
Image
An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
William Golding
Image
We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
William Golding
Image
The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
William Golding
Image
Beethoven for listening Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It's as wide as literature in fact, it is probably wider.
William Golding