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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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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William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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More quotes by William Golding
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
William Golding
Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
William Golding
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.
William Golding
I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
William Golding
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
William Golding
Beethoven for listening Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It's as wide as literature in fact, it is probably wider.
William Golding
What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
William Golding
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.
William Golding
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
William Golding
We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.
William Golding
If I blow the conch and they don't come back then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued. If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.
William Golding
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.
William Golding
Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
William Golding
An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
William Golding
He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep but not at the price of falling to it.
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
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.
William Golding
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
William Golding
Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
William Golding
How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
William Golding