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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Newquay
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William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.
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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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I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either. Piggy paused. Unless— Ralph moved restlessly. Unless what? Unless we get frightened of people.
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Are we savages or what?
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The rules! shouted Ralph, you're breaking the rules! Who cares?
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Of the authors writing in English, I'd mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I'm afraid however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
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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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I am here and here is nowhere in particular.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.
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The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That's so many pages longhand.
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The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.
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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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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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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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