Quote

There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

William Golding

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Newquay
Cornwall
William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
Life
Measured
Contemplation
Sat
Among
Dying
Worth
Fire
Men
Kinship

More quotes by William Golding

Image
Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
William Golding
Image
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
William Golding
Image
There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
William Golding
Image
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
Image
The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
William Golding
Image
They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
William Golding
Image
Which is better -- to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better -- to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
William Golding
Image
While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can't discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn't really matter.
William Golding
Image
If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?
William Golding
Image
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
William Golding
Image
What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?
William Golding
Image
As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn't seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
William Golding
Image
I think there might even come a time when I would read Virgil again. Ovid's Metamorphoses, perhaps, not because the music goes round and round and never comes out, but because it's an extraordinary picture of ceaseless change that never comes to an end.
William Golding
Image
Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?
William Golding
Image
Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
William Golding
Image
I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
William Golding
Image
There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
William Golding
Image
Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
William Golding
Image
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.
William Golding
Image
How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
William Golding