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The greatest ideas are the simplest.

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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William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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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.
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I suppose drama can either take the place of a novel or can be very closely allied with it. It's quite customary to turn a successful novel into a film or a television series because you can dramatize and pictorialize a novel.
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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.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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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.
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For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.
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Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were.
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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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Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.
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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.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.
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I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very true of English writers, but perhaps not so true of French writers, who seem to read each other passionately, extensively, and endlessly, and who then talk about it to each other - which is splendid.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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