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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
William Golding
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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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William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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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.
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I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.
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It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
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I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.
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The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
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Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in this? I don't know, said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. [...] Ralph shouted. Hear him! He's got the conch! What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us. Nuts! That was from Piggy, shocked out of decorum.
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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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.
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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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.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.
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We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.
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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.
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