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My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.
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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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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Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were.
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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
Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?
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The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.
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Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.
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The rules! shouted Ralph, you're breaking the rules! Who cares?
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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You'll get back to where you came from.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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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.
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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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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
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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.
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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn't seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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