Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Like
Discipline
Hand
Doesn
Hands
Matter
Many
Really
Things
Extent

More quotes by William Golding

Image
However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
William Golding
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
William Golding
Image
Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
William Golding
Image
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.
William Golding
Image
I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
William Golding
Image
His mind was crowded with memories memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
William Golding
Image
The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.
William Golding
Image
Of the authors writing in English, I'd mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I'm afraid however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
William Golding
Image
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
William Golding
Image
Beethoven for listening Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It's as wide as literature in fact, it is probably wider.
William Golding
Image
To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
William Golding
Image
The beast was harmless and horrible and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
William Golding
Image
He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
William Golding
Image
Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
William Golding
Image
The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
William Golding
Image
Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.
William Golding
Image
The greatest ideas are the simplest.
William Golding