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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
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William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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More quotes by William Golding
I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.
William Golding
What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?
William Golding
At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
William Golding
I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.
William Golding
Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
William Golding
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
We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
William Golding
As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.
William Golding
Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
William Golding
We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.
William Golding
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
William Golding
For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.
William Golding
The rules! shouted Ralph, you're breaking the rules! Who cares?
William Golding
No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
William Golding
The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
William Golding
Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.
William Golding
The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
William Golding
Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
William Golding
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
Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
William Golding
