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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
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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
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William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.
William Golding
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
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
William Golding
The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to novelists by the dozen.
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
Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.
William Golding
I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
William Golding
I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.
William Golding
I'm scared of him, said Piggy, and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
William Golding
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
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
William Golding
They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
William Golding
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
William Golding
The rules! shouted Ralph, you're breaking the rules! Who cares?
William Golding
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
William Golding
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.
William Golding
We're not savages. We're English.
William Golding
We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.
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
