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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Newquay
Cornwall
William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
William Golding
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
William Golding
The rules! shouted Ralph, you're breaking the rules! Who cares?
William Golding
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
I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.
William Golding
Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
William Golding
I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
William Golding
I am here and here is nowhere in particular.
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
They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
William Golding
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.
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
One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
William Golding
I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That's so many pages longhand.
William Golding
I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.
William Golding
And I've been wearing specs since I was three.
William Golding
One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
William Golding
Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
William Golding
We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
William Golding
Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
William Golding
