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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
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More quotes by William Golding
My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.
William Golding
Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
William Golding
In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
William Golding
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.
William Golding
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
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.
William Golding
This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.
William Golding
The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
William Golding
Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
William Golding
Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
William Golding
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
William Golding
What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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
Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
William Golding
We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
William Golding
How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
William Golding
Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
William Golding
Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.
William Golding
Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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
