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William Golding
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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
Novelist
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Newquay
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William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.
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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
I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.
William Golding
Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
William Golding
They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
William Golding
We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
William Golding
The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to novelists by the dozen.
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Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.
William Golding
But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
William Golding
I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.
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You'll get back to where you came from.
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And I've been wearing specs since I was three.
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I think there might even come a time when I would read Virgil again. Ovid's Metamorphoses, perhaps, not because the music goes round and round and never comes out, but because it's an extraordinary picture of ceaseless change that never comes to an end.
William Golding
I have a confession to make. The love affair of my life has been with the Greek language. I have now reached the age when it has occurred to me that I may have read some books for the last time. I suddenly thought that there are books I cannot bear not to read again before I die. One that stands out a mile is Homer's Iliad.
William Golding
For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much.
William Golding
