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The rules! shouted Ralph, you're breaking the rules! Who cares?
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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Science Fiction Writer
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Newquay
Cornwall
William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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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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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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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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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?
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There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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I suppose I'd have to say that my favourite author is Homer. After Homer's Ilaid, I'd name The Odyssey, and then I'd mention a number of plays of Euripides.
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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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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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I am here and here is nowhere in particular.
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Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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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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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful 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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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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