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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
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Newquay
Cornwall
William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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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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What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?
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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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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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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don't think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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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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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.
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They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.
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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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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.
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Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?
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For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.
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