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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
Screenwriter
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Newquay
Cornwall
William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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More quotes by William Golding
What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
William Golding
We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.
William Golding
If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?
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
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
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
The beast was harmless and horrible and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
William Golding
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.
William Golding
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
William Golding
Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
William Golding
The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
William Golding
He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
William Golding
Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
William Golding
I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
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
This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.
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
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.
William Golding
Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
William Golding
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
William Golding
